Yeah. Ultimately, I'd really love to see the site powered by a CMS. The bastardization of a CMS we have right now really makes even the small changes like smashing a triakis tetrahedron peg into a round hole. With the advent of modern CMSs generating static sites and Apache really wanting to go away from the solution they provide, it might be something we can do.
-Nick On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > And FTR, my wild dream is to write our site using FlexJS. ;-) If this was > all MXML and AS, wouldn’t it be much easier to maintain? > > -Alex > > On 5/27/15, 12:52 PM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >If I can manage to get my foothold with my business int he direction I > >want, I would be up to helping keep it fresh (in the future). > > > >One thing that would help Nic is when you go through and make updates, > >write a wiki page explaining what you did and the exact places that should > >be kept up and a little explanation of how to do it with the template. > > > >I remember when you put all the time in it way back when and yeah, it > >served a purpose for the start of this project. > > > >Like I said, I am really trying to justify my time from a business > >perspective, anybody that knows my history, knows I put a HUGE amount of > >time into blogging and tutorials when the project first started. > > > >Anyway, seems like there is an opportunity to re-brand Apache Flex this > >year and the project shouldn't miss it. > > > >BTW, Did you mean Joseph, not Josh? The one with the videos? > > > >Mike > > > > > >On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicho...@spoon.as> > >wrote: > > > >> I'm willing to take on a bit of a refresh of the website after I get a > >>few > >> other commits taken care of. Idealy, I'd like to integrate the newly > >> donated Flex Docs into the site (with search, etc.), so doing a quick > >> refresh of the content would make sense. > >> > >> The biggest concern when we launched the website originally was that > >>there > >> little content for us to include. With Josh making this /huge/ > >>donation of > >> time and effort this will be lessened, but if we could get a few people > >>to > >> help collect external content for us to link to, that would be great. > >>Even > >> better, if anybody would like to step up and write tutorials for the > >> website (or maintain things like the showcase, etc) that would help keep > >> the site fresh. > >> > >> -Nick > >> > >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Nemi <nemino...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Agree. More my comments: > >> > > >> > * Double/triple linking to same content doesn't make website more > >>rich of > >> > content, it makes it not organized. For example: > >> > - 'Licensing' on front page and 'About Flex->License & Trademarks' > >>link > >> to > >> > same page about-licensing.html > >> > <http://flex.apache.org/about-licensing.html> > >> > - 'Tooling', 'Desktop & Mobile Apps' on front page and 'About > >> > Flex->Features' link to same page about-features.html > >> > <http://flex.apache.org/about-features.html> > >> > - 'Flex Showcase' and 'About Flex->Flex Showcase' link to same page > >> > community-showcase.html > >><http://flex.apache.org/community-showcase.html> > >> > At least these two have same name ;) > >> > > >> > * When I want to see showcase of something, I don't want first thing > >>to > >> see > >> > 'How to submit your application?'. BTW 'Apps List' on this page is > >>ideal > >> > candidate to implement in carousel/slider. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > View this message in context: > >> > > >> > >> > http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/Apache-Flex-Website- > >>thought-tp46946p46988.html > >> > Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at > >>Nabble.com. > >> > > >> > >
