On 6/7/21 3:37 PM, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:

On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 14:40 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:

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If you are adept at designing Wordpress themes, or adapting existing ones, I am looking for you.

While there's nothing wrong with our existing blog theme, it's time to freshen it up, and possibly incorporate some of the CentOS 8 imagery and bring it into the same style family as the main centos.org website.

If you're able and willing to work on this, please let me know. Thanks.

I am interested in contributing to that. In fact, I am already walking in that direction. A while ago I started to integrate each site design with www.centos.org style, so they all look more like a single entity than different ones. Also to apply design changes in a single place not on each site individually.

This mail is about the blog visual manifestation, so probably I need to reorder my priorities or reconsider the whole plan based on what is necessary. Could you guide me on this Rich?

What you say above - to align the design between all of our various sites - is exactly what I had in mind, and, in retrospect, yes, obviously, I should have talked with you first. What you have done with the other sites is great, and having the blog in that same style would be very nice.

I don't wish to hinder your progress in any way, and as you were already thinking in these same directions, I'll just let you do your thing. Thanks so much for your work on these.

--Rich

On 6/8/21 9:14 AM, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:

On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 07:52 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:

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What you say above - to align the design between all of our various sites - is exactly what I had in mind, and, in retrospect, yes, obviously, I should have talked with you first. What you have done with the other sites is great, and having the blog in that same style would be very nice.

I don't wish to hinder your progress in any way, and as you were already thinking in these same directions, I'll just let you do your thing. Thanks so much for your work on these.

Thank you very much Rich.

Let me be more specific about what I have in mind here in case someone is wishing to join/correct/suggest improvements. I also provide here some of the links where you can find the work being done and where it is possible to contribute by merge requests:

1. www.centos.org HTML and CSS base design. Here we define the HTML and

CSS that we want to have in all sites. There are a few comments worth reading in https://git.centos.org/centos/centos.org/pull-request/112. This merge request should not be merged yet. It is there to track the progress mostly. I would wait until having all sites redesign ready to apply so to make a consistent switch. Something to plan, maybe as part of CentOS Stream 9 release, to visually reinforce the release itself.

Thank you for clarifying this. I had assumed that it wasn't ready to be merged, but appreciate the confirmation.

Example: https://centos.areguera.net/

2. people.centos.org, mirror.centos.org autoindex and 404 page and

httpd stuff in general. This is controlled by https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-httpd and the redesign work is in https://github.com/areguera/ansible-role-httpd/tree/staging

Example: https://centos.areguera.net/not-found-page

Example: https://centos-people.areguera.net/

3. lists.centos.org: The mailing list. This is controlled by

https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-mailman and the redesign work is in https://github.com/areguera/ansible-role-mailman/tree/staging

Example: https://centos-lists.areguera.net/

4. wiki.centos.org: The wiki. This is controlled by

https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-moin and the redesign work is in https://github.com/areguera/ansible-role-moin/tree/staging

This is my current target now. No example, yet.

We should definitely talk more about this, since there has been talk of moving the Wiki content to something Git-based rather than Wiki-based, which would allow for easier participation in the content editing without having to get access to the Wiki authentication.

I don't know what the timeline is on this, but would hate for you to sink a lot of time into this and it not be used.

5. blog.centos.org: The blog. I need to find out where the repo is or

suggest the creation of one in order to track the redesign work.

I don't think that the existing theme is in a repo anywhere, but I could very well be mistaken. I guess Fabian would know.

The site itself is Wordpress, and the theme is "Blue Peace" - https://themesinfo.com/blue-peace-best-free-wordpress-theme-zzt - with some small local modifications.

That's it. I go slow, but I go :)

Again, thank you very much for your consideration. I appreciate it a lot. Also the constant help of Fabian to make all this happen.

Best regards,

On 6/8/21 12:34 PM, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:

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The site itself is Wordpress, and the theme is "Blue Peace" - https://themesinfo.com/blue-peace-best-free-wordpress-theme-zzt  - with some small local modifications.

That link is a good starting point.

So, I am pausing wiki.centos.org redesign and moving myself onto blog.centos.org redesign.

Note that we are in no way tied to that particular theme. Feel free to start from any theme that looks like a good starting point, and work from there. Swapping from one them to another is quick and simple and doesn't break any of our existing content. Also, as a blog admin, you can try out a replacement theme without making that change for everyone else, which is a handy feature for testing changes.

--Rich