Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 24 ago 2016 alle 19:13, Noeck <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> >  Last year we had this discussion:
> >  
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-07/msg00105.html
>
> And in this discussion, sort of agreed that the website (the first 
> page
> you look at and some few others) are different from all the docs and 
> so
> on. Switching the docs in all languages with the examples etc. from
> texinfo to sth. else is daunting to say the least.

Even if this is a frequent misunderstanding, nobody ever thought about 
this possibility. The discussion was about switching the _website only_ 
to something else. Urs made a good (long) summary of the discussion 
here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-07/msg00111.html
> But for the front
> page/website there is in principle a little bit more freedom if one 
> has
> a convincing alternative (with constraints still of course - and I am
> sure many will appear here after this mail).
>
> As I commented on the discussion last year, I think, a lot can be done
> by a new html/css layout without necessarily switching much of how the
> html content is produced. The front page should also be reconsidered.

Yes, it's possible but it requires a lot of work: you'll probably have 
to work also on texinfo files (at least to add/remove html divs) and 
perhaps on the texi2html init file (written in perl).

At the moment, I think that the best approach is changing small things. 
The best concrete proposal I've seen in this discussion is the one from 
Paul (who is also the person who contributed more to doc and website 
style in the last year and something).