Re: 2018 Site Redesign Proposal

Hi Cheryl, Mark,

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 1, 2018, at 01:08, Cheryl Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone, long time no talk!
> >
> > I hope everyone has been well. I've had... a hectic time of it but I'm
> settling down finally.
> >
> > I should apologize for how MIA and hard-to-reach I have been.
> > Hopefully now that things are more stable in my personal life, I can
> give more time to CL and other projects.
> >
> > As a start, I've written a basic design update for Common-Lisp.net. You
> can view and comment on the code for it here: https://gitlab.common-lisp.
> net/clo/site/merge_requests/1
> >
> > This features actual mobile responsiveness (yes, the last design had an
> embarrassing mistake, I know!) and removes the mtime dependency that was
> preventing us from upgrading Ruby on CLnet's servers. I think we're still
> on a very old Ruby version, hopefully this will allow us to upgrade it, or
> at least remove one more barrier.
> >
> > Please take your time to review it at your leisure; I know I'm sort of
> surprising everyone with this.
> > I've attached a few screenshots so you can see what it looks like at a
> glance.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > - C. Yang
>
> I thought the plan was to port the current site over to a non-Ruby version
> in https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/clo/cl-site and then change that one?
>
> It would be considerably easier for the operators to get rid of the Ruby
> dependency.
>

Indeed for me it is a higher priority to remove the Ruby dependency and be
able to generate the site from Lisp than it is to have a new site.

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