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Re: [wiki] Textbook redesign 2
Hi Destry, great to hear you’ll be helping to improve Textbook. There’s also Textbook redesign part 1 and some other threads you may want to read to bring you up to speed. I can be the third man if you’ve got the zither :)
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Re: [wiki] Textbook redesign 2
Bon. Bon.
Just one thing before we get stiff in cement. There’s been a lot of back-and-forth talk about moving the wiki to a different platform. I’ve already given my viewpoint above about why that’s a wasted effort. So, you all need to make it clear to me right now if that’s still what you plan on doing, because if it is, then I’m out before I’m in again. I don’t have time nor interest to get involved in any complicated migrations and retooling content that’s already been marked-up with MW syntax, etc.
If, on the other hand, you’re willing to trust me one more time with MW, I promise we’ll beat it into sublime submission. If that’s the case, I’ll put a clone up on my Joyent account where things will happen somewhat quietly until there’s actually something to show. Txp devs, Patrick, zero, and myself will have access at first. I just don’t want two live TxB sites at the same time so as not to confuse the search engines and rest of the world.
Zero, thanks for the content structure ideas…we’ll start with that for context. As for skin design, I want to base it from what’s being done with the main site, so it will be important to see what those guys are cooking up as soon as it’s possible to see it. We won’t match the layout necessarily, as we want to build around the nature of the wiki content, but we will adopt the general aesthetics. This concept of uniform theme vs. individual expression was pursued once years before and individual expression won out. This time, considering all this talk about image and marketing, TxB is going with the matching suit for clear indication of where it belongs.
Anyway, lets hear it about the platform so I know whether to go back to sleep or not.
EDIT: And I won’t be offended or put off if you really want to change systems. I’ll happily give more focus to my other projects.
Last edited by Destry (2008-06-26 12:52:56)
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Re: [wiki] Textbook redesign 2
I think the move idea got a lot of traction when we were having the never ending time out issues after moving to the new server. I seem to finally have beaten that beast into submission (with Mary’s help), so a lot of the clamoring for change has died down a bit.
The host name is another thing that got messed up in the server move thanks for reminding me to look into that. The current version is fairly out of date, robson did not have CLI php upgraded to 5 so it was getting really sketchy to run the upgrade scripts (actually I never really got those to run right), and after we moved to the new box we had all those other problems so I didn’t want to mess with anything since it was at least browseable.
I need to dedicate some time to getting everything upgraded.
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