[Ubuntu Chicago] New Website Theme

[Jim Campbell]

Freddy, I've been pretty pleased with my wordpress account, but I've heard
hackers disparage it for security reasons.  I can't say I know about those
concerns, though . . . they've mostly come in an off-hand way.

On 3/17/07, Freddy Martinez <freddymartinez9 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I like the new layout but I was hoping we can make it more "team related".
> The news could be updated, member pages added etc. Richard, I can (try) to
> help out if you ping me tomorrow (when I get back to school and a normal
> intrawebs connections). On a personal note, I open up a Wordpress account
> and use that? I have WP mostly because I find it to be slow...thoughts?
>
> On 3/17/07, Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Jim Campbell wrote:
> > | Hmmm... this doesn't seem to be a new website theme, but an entire
> > website
> > | refresh.  It looks great, but where did our stuff go?
> >
> > We never really had anything but links to stuff we never added to. I am
> > changing this this time around. I am going to Chicago'ize the page today
> > and
> > make it fit us more. Right now what you see is a tweaked theme of the
> > Ubuntu.com theme. Canonical would like LoCo pages to emulate the main
> > site as
> > much as possible. I think we have done good with that aspect, but now I
> > want
> > to add a drop down link at the top that will be all Chicago stuff. Then
> > create a news page to host our news, and incorporate the Planet into
> > that
> > theme as well. So if anyone is a serious PHP hacker let me know. My PHP
> > skills are Googled :)
> >
> > | Maybe others were aware of this change, but I didn't see any activity
> > on
> > | the listserve or on IRC about it.  We could've helped with the
> > project, or
> > | we could've just copied Freddy's blog into an OpenOffice Writer
> > document or
> > | something.  :-)
> >
> > I have Freddy's blog. I just need to see if he can edit and add to it.
> >
> > | We need to communicate better about these changes so that we can help
> > each
> > | other out.  Were we under some kind of Canonical-imposed time crunch
> > to
> > | update our website or something?  What can we do to make this better
> > for
> > | next time?
> >
> > Kind of. I apologize for not coming to the list first, but seeing as
> > there was
> > nothing more than some stale news (which is still there, just not posted
> > on
> > the front page) and Freddy's blog, I went ahead with the upgrade. I
> > would
> > like to create more of a portal but we shall see how that goes.
> >
> > --
> > Rich Johnson
> > nixternal at ubuntu.com
> > GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Best,
> Freddy Martinez
> Kubuntu. Linux for human beings.
> www.chi.ubuntu-us.org
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