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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 00:56:49 +0000, Jonah Aragon wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've been working on a new design and system for the homepage, and I wanted
> to gather some opinions on what works, what doesn't, and what you think
> about replacing our current WordPress site (at
> https://www.opennicproject.org/). You can check out my design at
> https://jonaharagon.github.io/opennic.org/.
> 
> Some background:
> 
> The WordPress site currently host a simple homepage, a basic membership
> system (essentially providing a profile frontend for the LDAP system), and
[...]

> 
> My site (code at https://github.com/JonahAragon/opennic.org) is complete
> static HTML (which is compiled with Jekyll) homepage. 

That sounds a good plan.  My own preference would have been ikkiwiki to
compile the static pages, but that is just a personal choice.

I know that my previous suggestions for a quite different logo were not
liked here, but I would also suggest reconsidering the logo.  IMO, it
should stress the "open" rather than the "nic", because openness is a
key philosophical and practical feature.


richard

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Richard Lyons