Re: PostgreSQL website redesign

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 11/19/2011 09:29 AM, damien clochard wrote:
>>
>> c/ Sorry but I'm not a huge fan of the Postgres Open website :-/ It's
>> full of HTML and CSS errors everywhere. The meta tags are pretty poor.
>> Basic files like sitemap.xml or robots.txt are missing. There's no
>> favicon either....  On what basis is this an "excellent job" ?
>>
>
> The Postgres Open site is built on top of some Django code from another
> conference, and it turned out to be a nightmare to work with.  The primary
> basis you should judge the designer of that site on is whether the visual
> look is nice.  As far as I know every error you mentioned resulted from a
> framework issue that they had no control over.  All time that had been
> intended for fixing those sort of things (and far more) was gobbled up just
> getting the schedule to display, which had nothing to do with the job they
> were working on.

We have our own new framework, which should be going live in the next
2 or 3 weeks. Any new design will be based on that.

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