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I don't think it could hurt to re-examine the dsl site in terms of usability, so I think jaapz might be on to something here.

I've also thought the "forums" link could be somewhat more prominent.

For a cover page it is ok, but it is perhaps rather text dense. People don't like to be presented with too much text on an opening page.

I also think the point about John perhaps needing some support on the web and blog side of things is difficult to dispute.

I don't know if he's using Drupal throughout the site or just for the blog section. I know there have been (and always will be) issues wrt spammers anytime you have sections like the wiki or blogs. I was interested in moving my blog, at least the Linux-related one, to the DSL blog section but between the problems with it and the flexibility I have using WordPress I decided to stick with my own status quo. I'm all for making things easier and more functional -- as long as that's for all users and not just those with graphical browsers, etc. At the same time, we have to respect that DSL is John's and it's his decision how much control he's willing to cede and to whom.

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For a cover page it is ok, but it is perhaps rather text dense. People don't like to be presented with too much text on an opening page.

I guess this is what he was getting at perhaps...

There isn't much of a need for a fully fledged CMS imo since there isn't much dynamic content (as I have said). I mentioned auto-parsing of new releases, and I mean something like that, i.e. not manually editing the version numbers, etc. but grabbing new notes from the forum, and latest releases from the downloads/current/ etc. I suppose this is subject to debate though.

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There isn't much of a need for a fully fledged CMS imo since there isn't much dynamic content (as I have said). I mentioned auto-parsing of new releases, and I mean something like that, i.e. not manually editing the version numbers, etc. but grabbing new notes from the forum, and latest releases from the downloads/current/ etc. I suppose this is subject to debate though.

well, that is a good idea. it probably wont be too hard to fetch the latest RC and Release topic titles, and to filter the version numbers outta it, i could do that with a simple PHP script.

lucky13: afaik drupal is only used in the blogs, and as John is updating those, i dont think it would be a too big step to switch over to wordpress. this will be better in terms of usability, but als in terms of findability, if u know what i mean :P. wordpress uses "friendly" urls, and drupal (afaik) doesn't. and thats way better for (for example) google

Are those annoying pop-in ads in lucky13's blog a part of wordpress?
Also, wordpress is really heavy, like Wikipedia, in the sense that even with a fast connection, it takes time to render and chews up ram (and usually starts heavy swap activity..)

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