Re: New website design: help needed

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:31:52 +0100
"Yury V. Zaytsev via mc-devel" <mc-devel-+hD5IHI5XseWCegYutOAJTiNl0CLU6MPYPYVAmT7z5s@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As I'm slowly working on hammering many of the necessary nails into the
> coffin of our old Trac, I thought I'd ask for some help in designing a
> new website.
>
> My general idea is this: most of the Trac content will be migrated to
> hosted services in the future, including the wiki. However, it would be
> nice to still have a landing page / index on midnight-commander.org .
>
> In terms of requirements, I can think of the following:
>
> * Ideally clean and light design (think terminalcss.xyz), accessible
> and browsable with both text mode / legacy browsers and modern software.
Umm, why use a framework if we're just doing a few pages? Like, one css
file is all we'd need. No framework necessary, right?

> * The content should be similar to the current main page. I think it
> would be best to split it into several pages, but I wouldn't be
> completely against the idea of scrollable sections. As an example of
> some recent sites that caught my eye as being nice in terms of layout,
> structure and content, I can mention the new PCRE2
> homepage: https://pcre2project.github.io/pcre2/ .
>
> * The implementation should be HTML5, using some static generator -
> maybe hugo or mkdocs?
HTML5 isn't supported by legacy browsers such as lynx. You might use a
subset of the markup language, and that would work. Why is HTML5 a hard
requirement?

> * There should be room for an AdSense plug.
Because you know everyone loves ads. ;)

> Let me know if you can contribute. Ideally, if you have any questions,
> we can discuss that on the list, and then eventually you post your work
> as a GitHub repository / GitHub pages and we can fork it into our
> organization when it's time to move.
>
> Thanks in advance if anyone gets back to me...
>
> All the best,
> Yury

What sort of timeframe are you looking to get this done in?

Sincerely,
David
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