[Nottingham] NLUG new website: Comments #02

[Martin]

On 12/10/10 18:28, Mat Booth wrote:
> On 12 October 2010 18:06, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>> Folks,
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>> After a few days to play and muse, my thoughts are:
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>>>> http://nlug.c25.eu/
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>> I very much like the idea of a new custom Wordpress theme for our group
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>> Good design for keeping simple and clear.
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>> Are there colours that aid power saving on LED monitors or laptops?
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>> What is the minimum feature set that we want?
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>> I think the must haves are:
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>>>> http://nottlug.blogspot.com/
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>> Looks like the sort of standard panels available from a number of
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>>>> http://nlug.wp.ml1.co.uk/
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>> This was just a first try "quick look-see" that worked far better than I
>> was expecting. Good clean theme but...
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> 
> I'm afraid I like the high-contrast, green-on-black one the least. The
> other two don't really offend me at all ;-)

Non-offending is a very good start!


> Tangentially: About bloggy-type features of the CMS...
> 
> Are you thinking that the NLUG site would be a blog in and of itself
> where members of the LUG can post LUG/Linux/OSS related items?

I wasn't but /could/ be. I'd rather the site be a blog and events list
purely for and about /NLUG/ ...

I think a links page to other sites for members blogs would be a very
good idea.

I hope people can contribute for the group for 'technical' and 'how-to'
pages so that it becomes a useful everyday resource for all things Linux
and computing.


> Is it possible to aggregate externally hosted LUG members' blogs so
> that they appear in the same feed as the main NLUG blog? [1]
> 
> 
> [1] Like what PlanetPlanet does: http://www.planetplanet.org/

If that can be put in, yes. If Wordpress doesn't already support that,
then I'm sure we can hack the php!


Cheers,
Martin


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