[Mono-list] Updating or Redoing go-mono.net

[Todd Berman]

Call me crazy, but MasterPages, while being something that would be
helpful, can absolutely be emulated in 1.1.

There is no technical reason the site can't be replicated, extended, etc
in mono right now.

More than anything I would say the issue is one of time.

If it was put to a vote, I'd vote for doing the site in ASP.NET,
however, I think before you figure out how to do it, you should evaluate
the skillset of who is doing it :)

--Todd

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 19:37, Ben Maurer wrote:
> One of the issues is that v1, asp.net does not have alot of the things
> we need (MasterPages is the biggest example). Once we get to v2 stuff,
> doing the site would be much easier.
> 
> OTOH, by the time we 1.0, we *really* want to be dogfooding on the
> homepage.
> 
> -- Ben
> 
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:05, Aaron Weber wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Miguel mentioned to me that we ought to update go-mono.net at some
> > point. While at first the major site audience was people who wanted to
> > contribute to Mono as a platform, now we have more kinds of people
> > that we need to pay attention to:
> > 
> > * People contributing to the Mono platform
> > * C# developers who want to use Mono, ASP.NET, gtk#, and so forth, but
> > don't want to contribute to the platform
> > * Power-users who want to use things written in C#, but aren't
> > developers.
> > 
> > I think two or three things we can do. 
> > 
> > The easiest is a simple content update, maybe with some
> > re-organization. We'll make sure that info on use and installation is
> > easy to find, clean up the directory structure into a few primary
> > sections: news/about/general, platform development, programming with
> > C#/Mono, and using Mono/C# software. This would be relatively simple
> > but wouldn't solve any major structural issues with the site.
> > 
> > A more serious update would involve redoing the left-hand navigation
> > and creating a real directory structure. Ideally, we should have a
> > menu system that expands as you go down (see www.ximian.com), rather
> > than a long list of items on the left side of the page. This would be
> > great, but I probably don't have the autoconf/make/etc. skills to
> > rewrite the site scripts.
> > 
> > Most ambitious would be to put the site entirely into ASP.NET, making
> > it a showcase for Mono software. This would probably mean a ground-up
> > redesign, and might as well include a new look to emphasize the
> > difference. That would be really cool. I have no idea how advisable
> > that is, though-- it could be a long project that would require
> > resources better spent on developing mono and software for it.
> > 
> > a.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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