Re: Redesigning postgresql.org

Hi

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Gevik Babakhani <gevik(at)postgresql(dot)nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At FOSDEM we had a discussion regarding redesigning postgresql.org to make
> it modern and responsive. I might have had one drink too many (water that
> is) and I kind of volunteered to give a shot at it. The following items we
> discussed briefly:
>
> [1] Color and theme of the website should remain largely the same blue(ish)
> [2] JavaScript can be used but the website must work 100% should someone
> have JavaScript disabled. This one is particularly hard since many “nice”
> things in web development, like client side validation and such rely on
> JavaScript.

I think you misunderstood that a little. If Javascript is disabled,
the site should gracefully fall back to a mode where the content is
still readable and usable, but not necessarily as nicely.

> [3] The website should be responsive, and adaptive when needed (for this one
> we need JavaScript for sure)
> [4] We discussed the possibility of a CMS functionality briefly.

Meh. Maybe we could use Django-CMS, but I can't get that excited about it.

> [5] We discussed the usage of web-fonts and supporting Internet Explorer as
> of version 9
> [6] We did not discuss the backend!!

We do not want to change the backend from Django.

> In the following weeks I want to setup a local copy of the website and start
> gathering a better picture of what actually needs to be done and the amount
> of work it is involved.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Gevik Babakhani
> github: https://github.com/blendsdk
> twitter: @gevik, @blendjs
>
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