[Dolphin] Dolphin.KDE.org website upgrade (HTML5)

[Rishabh Rao]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your reply!

> What kind of newsletter do you have in mind?
I meant something like Amarok Insider (http://amarok.kde.org/en/Insider).

Well, so shall we postpone this idea of updating the website to the future?

If there's any web design/developer related work required in the
future, please do mention on kfm-devel at kde.org. I'd be happy to
contribute!

On a different note, I'll look at other places to contribute:
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute#User_Interface seems interesting!

Thank you!

Best regards,
Rishabh Rao

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Frank Reininghaus
<frank78ac at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rishabh,
>
> sorry for the late reply!
>
> 2012/11/10 Rishabh Rao:
> OK, but one could also just forward those users to userbase.kde.org.
>
> > Moreover, on  Dolphin.KDE.org, we can have blogs (Dolphin & community blogs),
>
> Well, we have Planet KDE already, and at the moment, I'm not aware of
> many blogs which are about Dolphin ;-) I mean, I would really
> appreciate it greatly if more people blogged about their work on
> Dolphin, but those blogs would then also be added to Planet KDE. I
> don't know if there really is a target audience that would read a
> "Planet Dolphin" but not "Planet KDE".
>
> > video (like "Get to know Dolphin"),
> > newsletters,
>
> What kind of newsletter do you have in mind?
>
>
> > download links
>
> Hm, most users probably just get Dolphin by their distro's package
> manager. OK, there are Windows and Mac versions which can be
> downloaded, but the available versions are rather outdated, and they
> are basically unsupported by us. I'm not aware of any Dolphin
> developer who would even be able to verify if a Windows-specific bug
> exists, let alone fix it. I wouldn't really feel comfortable
> advertising such packages on our web site.
>
> > We can always add say, Google Analytics, onto the Dolphin.KDE.org website
> > and see how much traffic it gets.
>
> I guess we could also ask our sysadmins ;-)
>
> > I understand your concern with long term maintenance of the website. But the
> > technologies that I mentioned:
> > * HTML5 Boilerplate - it's just standard HTML5 which gives pre-written HTML
> > tags for writing standards-complaint HTML.
> > * Twitter Bootstrap - it's already being used at Forum.KDE.org.
> > * OpenGraph - it's some additional attributes that we optionally add onto
> > the already existing HTML tags.
> > We'll be sticking to standard web technologies, these are actually the same
> > familiar web technologies, nothing fancy. Most of the code will be
> > client-side with server-side requirements for dynamically loading news,
> > blogs etc. By looking at the News section, I believe that the content there
> > is dynamically generated. So that's sufficient.
>
> I just checked - the news are just hard-coded HTML, as is the rest of
> dolphin.kde.org:
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/dolphin/
>
> I see that loading content dynamically may look nice, but I'm just not
> convinced that we have enough content which is worth loading
> dynamically...
>