KDevelop website

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

>> > Layout-wise, I don't think the current site is absolutely terrible, I
>> > think it contains the needed information in a reasonably organized way.
>> > The presentation certainly has its weaknesses though, so if you are
>> > motivated, it is from my point of view much appreciated if you come up
>> > with something better!
>> 
>> Yes the current website is not bad. The big weakness in my opinion is 
>> the
>> homepage. It is showing a big list of screenshots and I think an good 
>> and
>> simple improvement would be to replace those with the feature page, 
>> since it
>> gives a better overview of all features (and is a lot faster to load). 
>> The
>> text on the homepage should be left aligned instead of centered.
> 
> Just as a reminder how the KDevelop website looked a couple years ago:
>   https://codecondo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/kdevelop.png :)
> 
> I think we've made a huge step into the right way given our current 
> layout.
> Fully agree with Sven's sentiment here: I think the layout is generally 
> fine,
> but design-wise it could be polished here and there. Just some ideas I 
> have
> off the top of my head:
> 
> - The KDevelop screenshots on the home page are not entirely crisp, for
> instance the first one -- they've been recorded with increased font 
> size and
> bad font hinting iiuc -- should be replaced/updated
> - As you mentioned: the Features page should probably be merged into 
> the home
> page, and prettified
> 
> I'm not a big fan of Drupal myself, as Sven mentioned. I won't go into 
> details
> right now (I just can't remember where all the problems were), but it 
> feels
> like Drupal is oversized for the couple static pages we serve at 
> kdevelop.org.
> Plus we disabled the comment sections a while ago, too (probably one of 
> the
> main reasons where Drupal was still useful) b/c the contents didn't 
> really
> provide value. We'd like people to comment on Reddit/Hackernews/KDE 
> Forums or
> wherever the blog posts are promoted.
> 
>> This simple changes could be made without any change to the backend or
>> the theme. So if anyone with access to the drupal instance want to 
>> make
>> them, it would be nice. Bigger changes will need more work.
> 
> Just had a look at the Kate website and I'm really blown away. Great 
> work on
> that one! And I love the tight coupling to the KDE eco system in the 
> footer
> bar.
> 
> If you could replace kdevelop.org with something easier to maintain 
> (and which
> is being used by other KDE product websites anyway), I'm all for it. 
> The Kate
> website & KDevelop are very similar layout-wise anyway (that's because 
> I stole
> their layout when introducing the KDevelop website layout, heh).

stop the steal :=P

> 
> Obviously we would need to keep the old links to the individual blog 
> posts
> working, but I guess that's possible via redirects / URL rewrites, 
> whatever.

I kept the old WordPress links by using some importer to Hugo.

Perhaps similar things can be done here, at least it seems there are 
some "ancient" importers
like:

https://github.com/danapsimer/drupal2hugo

> 
> Nice work, Carl!

Yeah, Carl rocks!

Greetings
Christoph

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