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On 21/05/13 23:07, Simon Waters wrote: > On 21/05/13 19:45, Paul Sutton wrote: >> A few of us have been working on a new website structure / design and >> its finally at a point where we can give everyone the URL for comments. > Hi Paul, > > I think this sort of stuff works better if you tell people what you are > planning, and discuss it, in advance. I take Gordon's point and no one > has come forward to do more editing it was last discussed. > > Comments below. > > Simon > > > The site title is wrong ('user' not 'users'). > > It seems stats.wordpress.com is tracking our usage :( Do you really want > to use their stats? They aren't very comprehensive, then don't include > non-wordpress content, and it'll probably go down and slow the page > loads (okay they also do the gravatar stuff, and that WILL go slow the > page loads if history is anything to go by, but at least it tries to be > cached). > > The server proudly claims to be powered by PHP 5.2.17, and I was feeling > behind the curve for still having Squeeze installed. Date wise the > Squeeze PHP (5.3.3) and 5.2.17 were released almost exactly the same > time, I see there is a Google project to backport fixes to 5.2, hope > someone is, as some of the bugs in PHP were fairly bad. I usually kill > the header with the expose_php option in php.ini, not that I begrudge > them the credits, but no one reads http headers usefully who doesn't > already know when PHP is in use, and so the header eats bandwidth for no > purpose. I'd kill the Apache "server:" header if they didn't make it so > damned hard, I suspect netcraft are the only people who ever read it > usefully. > > The HTTP header "Link" is interesting. > Link: <http://wp.me/P3yhuu-4>; rel=shortlink > Does anyone knowing use the shortlink header, looks like a solution in > need of a problem, it could be useful if building a self healing web. > > I don't like the "email me" for RSS thing either, but that one is > clearly just personal taste. > > So I guess I don't like much of what Jetpack for Wordpress does. On the > other hand you can probably placate me with one or two clicks if you > agree with me. > > The current mailing list archive is about 0.5GB (and I think another > 0.5GB of crud to allow it to regen if/when we change the structure) and > currently part of the webserver. They currently use a .forward file, > maildrop, cron, for an archiving email address to get new posts added, > and some PHP scripts. Not sure it is too well documented, but it looked > fairly self explanatory, and the PHP code looked tightly coded to my > cursory inspection (Neil W or mhonarc). We should put this somewhere > sensible - I'm thinking /archive on a new server so as not to break URLs > would be a good idea. I can have a go at transferring it across if > someone sends me credentials. > > There is some Perl for reminding folk of subscriptions, and keeping > track of members GPG keys, but not sure if that needs preserving. What > do you think? > > Otherwise good work folks. > > Visually I don't like: > > search box - the colour blue (which resisted my immediate attempt to > locate its cause), and the cursor doesn't fit (ugly). > > calendars everywhere - I recognize a date when I see it - I'd prefer a > simple "Updated:" (assuming that is what it means) rather than be left > guessing what it means with a pretty calendar icon. > > The "comments closed" box can die (Might need to be preserved where the > number of comments is >0). > > The social media icons (lovingly served from here - yay - not stupidly > leaking data to a zillion social networks) should be left justified. > Maybe add a simple RSS here - see RSS comment further on. > > The site title is the only serif bearing font and it looks wrong as a > result. > > If the two text blocks on front page are suppose to be different > font/line spacing, they need to be more different. > > I hate "uncatergorized" (but am also guilty on my own blog), at least > rip out categories from sidebar till we have more than none of them. > > The RSS feed pop-ups up a list of RSS readers no one uses and some of > which are dead (AFAIK). > > The bottom box is some sort of promotion for the theme that takes you to > a dead and broken website. Is the theme dead already as far as original > author is concerned? > > I can fix all those up easily enough if you need help, but it will mean > maintaining a fork of the theme (you've probably already forked it? And > given it a new name, or at least under version control?), which I don't > fancy volunteering for. The downside of Wordpress is you always end up > writing and maintaining PHP, even if it is only to cull the bits they > should have on a toggle. > Hi Simon Thanks for your reply I have fixed the title so it now reads user group I have also added you as an admin so if you want to go in and play round with things you can :) Clearly there is work to be done, I will fix what I can, but its a start, perhaps if we ALL pull together then we can produce a really attractive site, that appeals and encourages people to join and take part. Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq