[mc] New website design: help needed

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hello everyone,

I've been working on the new website for a while now and I think I've made enough progress to show a preview:

  https://new.midnight-commander.org

Unfortunately, I don't have the artistic skills and capacity to further customise the theme and/or add a dark variant.

Content-wise, I think most of the important and relevant information is there.

If you want to help and think that something can be improved, just submit a pull request:

   https://github.com/MidnightCommander/website

I'm now working on salvaging and archiving the Trac content, and hopefully I'll be able to switch over soon.

All the best,
Yury

> On 17. Feb 2025, at 07:31, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As I'm slowly working on hammering many of the necessary nails into the coffin of our old Trac, I thought I'd ask for some help in designing a new website.
> 
> My general idea is this: most of the Trac content will be migrated to hosted services in the future, including the wiki. However, it would be nice to still have a landing page / index on midnight-commander.org .
> 
> In terms of requirements, I can think of the following:
> 
> * Ideally clean and light design (think terminalcss.xyz), accessible and browsable with both text mode / legacy browsers and modern software.
> 
> * The content should be similar to the current main page. I think it would be best to split it into several pages, but I wouldn't be completely against the idea of scrollable sections. As an example of some recent sites that caught my eye as being nice in terms of layout, structure and content, I can mention the new PCRE2 homepage: https://pcre2project.github.io/pcre2/ .
> 
> * The implementation should be HTML5, using some static generator - maybe hugo or mkdocs?
> 
> * There should be room for an AdSense plug.
> 
> Let me know if you can contribute. Ideally, if you have any questions, we can discuss that on the list, and then eventually you post your work as a GitHub repository / GitHub pages and we can fork it into our organization when it's time to move.
> 
> Thanks in advance if anyone gets back to me...
> 
> All the best,
> Yury