[mc] New website design: help needed

[Alan Corey]

look at werbach's barebones guide to html

https://werbach.com/barebones/

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM Yury V. Zaytsev via mc <
mc at lists.midnight-commander.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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