working on the new website

[Graham Percival]

Current version:
  http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html#Home
got the general design of Introduction and Download, but I've
decided that it's time to get more people involved.  Here's your
cut&paste section; it grabs 12 megs or so.

mkdir web-gop ; cd web-gop
git init-db
git remote add -f -t web-gop -m web-gop origin 
git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git/
git checkout -b web-gop origin/web-gop


Everything we're doing is inside the texinfo/ directory.  If you
have commit privileges to normal lilypond, you have 'em here as
well.  (but you'll need to change the .git/config file a bit
before you can push.  Instructions should be on the CG.)

Patrick, could you fiddle around in the texinfo/css/ dir?  Do
whatever you want -- add images, remove images, change the css,
split the css into multiple files (I think CSS supports that),
etc.  Don't spend too long on it; I'm still not at all certain
which <div>s we'll end up keeping, what info will actually go on
the front page (which is where most of the CSS will be useful),
etc.  I'm just getting a bit tired of my garish design.  :)


Who else is interested?  In particular,
- do you feel like re-writing the Introduction->Features ?  That's
  best done by a positive person (i.e. not me).

- do you feel like making examples for Introduction->Examples?
  (or quite possibly just use things from input/*.ly, or snippets,
  or whatever)
** no git, texinfo, or anything required!  Just lilypond and email! **

- do you feel like adapting the existing python scripts which set
  up the download links?  This might be do-able in 10 minutes, or
  it might take a bit longer.

- do you feel like wrestling with the web-texi2html-init.pl file
  to make it generate the second layer of the TOC frame?

- do you feel like writing the "doc intro" page?  (i.e. a
  replacement to the current Documentation/index.html, done
  in texinfo in texinfo/documentation.itexi)
   ** this page (and the home page) will probably be the most
     CSS-heavy pages **

I'm totally willing to do any or all of this myself, but if
anybody's interested in taking over these tasks, I'll devote my
time to other stuff (including working towards the 2.14 release).


Andrew, I know that you offered to work on the essay; if you're
still willing, then let's talk.  The only real question (in my
mind) is how much lilypond you want to include, and whether we
need to drag in lilypond-book for the website, or if we can do it
another way.  My hope is to do it another way.
If plain texinfo is fine, go ahead and do whatever you want in
texinfo/essay.itexi, as long as the result compiles.  :)


Oh, and does anybody have any immediate comments (or experience)
with blind users?  As a general rule, I'm quite keen to make
things accessible.  For the specific case of LilyPond, we have at
least one famous blind user, so we should make sure the new
webpage is easy for him/them to navigate.

Cheers,
- Graham