[ale] How Do I Join?

[Marc Ferguson]

Thank you for the requirements, or how to go about it. What version of
WP are you running?  I didn't do a good job of expressing it, but I
certainly agree with a minimalistic desgin.  I apologize to anyone
that I offended, I think I did state that it was my opinion, but no
matter. What's said is said.

Overall, I feel compelled to lend a helping hand and it looks like I'm
stepping on people's feelings while doing that. I'll keep my blunt
thoughts to myself from here on out.  Thanks again for providing the
best route to take.

On 2/20/09, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Personally, you sound a bit arrogant to me.  If you want to help support
>>> the website, the first thing you should do is find out who currently
>>> does that.  Then, you should contact them and discuss your
>>> concerns/ideas.  Throw something together, stick it out there and see
>>> what people think.  If people like it, then you'll have to wrestle with
>>> the folks who currently maintain the site.  By the way, I think you own
>>> them an apology.  You said their work was ugly. That is your opinion,
>>> and as we know, everyone's got one of those.  How about providing some
>>> substance?
>>>
>>
>> As the sysadmin for ale.org, I can speak to this.
>> We are running wordpress for the site itself. Please feel free to set
>> up your own wordpress installation (ain't open source grand!) pound in
>> your design ideas and send a link to me (and the rest of the whiners
>> who _HAVEN'T_ volunteered to refresh the look :-) and I be more than
>> happy to take a look at it. I guess you would need to package it up as
>> a wordpress theme. We currently use a theme from many years ago.
>>
>> I don't view the current site as "ugly" but rather "dated".
>>
>> Lastly, NO FLASH ANIMATION!!! (and minimal abuse of javascript to move
>> things around on the page please. Some of the geezers still don't have
>> X running so they use links and mutt exclusively. :}
>
> Amen on these requirements. ;)
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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