WebRedesign

From RSSOwl

Top Level Themes

• Provide a modern website that acts as a portal to users
• Make it easy for users to participate in the project
• Integrate every aspect of the website under a common look and feel
• Migrate all existing data to the new site

Website Aspects

• News
  • Blog
  • Highly visible User Comments
  • RSS Feeds
  • Social Links (Digg, Delicious, etc...)

• Forum
  • Easy to use and manage
  • Something like phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com)

• Wiki
  • Integrate into look and feel
  • Mediawiki already in use (http://wiki.rssowl.org)

• Bugzilla
  • Integrate into look and feel
  • Bugzilla already in use (http://dev.rssowl.org)

• Continuos Integration
  • Make nightly downloads visible to users
  • Make users report issues early
  • Invite Testers and Contributors

• Content
  • Overview
  • Screenshots
  • Help
  • Screencasts
  • Download
  • Development
  • Contact
  • Imprint
  • ...

• Search
  • Ideally results from all aspects of the site

• User Area
  • Manage Profile
  • Ideally single sign on for all aspects

Technical Details

• Drupal is currently in use and should be considered as primary platform (http://drupal.org)
• Current artwork of rssowl.org can be used for the relaunch of the website