Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

Hello,

Would a CMS like WordPress be a good candidate for a complete rewrite? I don’t 
know what is needed behind the scenes to satisfy the needs of such a web site.

JM

> Le 23 août 2016 à 16:18, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> a écrit :
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> Il giorno dom 21 ago 2016 alle 11:19, Andrew Yoon <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> I'm wondering if there might be room to discuss some improvements to the 
>> lilypond.org homepage -- in my personal experience in the past its typical 
>> GNU-style dated appearance was a little off-putting, and I suspect for many 
>> other composers and musicians who are a little more timid around technology 
>> it doesn't give a very reassuring welcome. I don't know if anything like 
>> this is in the works already, but is there room for discussing this? I'd be 
>> more than happy to help. Nothing dramatic or web3.0 style of course.
> 
> I have the feeling that it would be easier to rewrite it from scratch (both 
> text and style) and with another tool, but this is not a "popular" position.
> 
> Since this is a frequent discussion that returns every few months, I wonder 
> if there's anybody in this list willing to work together to improve the 
> website. I'd also be interested to know if there's someone who'd like to help 
> but it's blocked by something he/she feels wrong/uneasy.
> 
>> On a related note, I think it might be really fantastic if we could figure 
>> out a way to set up a REPL on the website somewhere where newcomers can give 
>> Lilypond a guided try in their browser before committing to the 
>> sometimes-arduous process of installing and getting it running locally. See 
>> for example the Haskell homepage https://www.haskell.org/ or the 
>> http://tryruby.org website.
> 
> This was discussed some time ago:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4200/
> 
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