Re: Random question: GNUStep site design

[MJ Ray]

Scott Stevenson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hope I'm talking to the right people.

I think you are.

> I'm a professional designer and software developer. I'm a fan of the 
> *Step API and Cocoa, and appreciate what you guys are doing. I don't 
> have the time to contribute code right now, but I'm curious if there 
> would be any interest in a quick revamp of the gnustep.org site design?

There is one in progress.  A draft can be seen at
http://www.gnustep.org/newindex.html but it's going slower than I'd like
because I have other work to be doing.  A plan is in the gnustep-webmasters
list archive.

> For reference, you can see my past work at: http://createbynumbers.com/

Erm, do you know that that page doesn't validate?  It also doesn't give
a character encoding, so I specified utf-8.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcreatebynumbers.com%2F&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29
Then again, my pages are often not perfect.

> I'd probably just spend a few hours on a quick concept, just to see if 
> there's interest in the ideas I have... then take it from there. I just 
> didn't want to waste time if site appearance wasn't considered a 
> priority. It would be nice to get a link back to my site in return, but 
> that's not a hard requirement.

Any comments/patches on newindex.html would be welcome.  If we take
enough can you licence them under GPL or something suitable (PD whatever)?
Then, I think we'll give you a link from a credits and copyright page.

Many thanks,
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