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[Events] New design for events list info page

Lydia Pintscher lydia at kde.org
Sun May 19 16:51:21 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I want to strongly encourage you to check out the new look for the Events
> list info page: http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events/
>
> Karen and I just put together a quick hack that makes it look actually
> reasonably nice! It's all Twitter bootstrap'd up, but moreover we've done
> the following:
>
> * Emphasize how to send mail to the list.
>
> * Emphasize how to subscribe.
>
> * Add a photo.
>
> * Explain what sorts of things happen on the list.
>
> * Remove unnecessary options.
>
> * Clarify "Unsubscribe" vs. "Login".
>
> * Indicate how Mailman passwords work.
>
> Feedback extremely welcome!
>
> In particular, if there are ways that it does or doesn't convey the purpose
> of this list as you've experienced it, now is a great time to say so.
>
> Source at: https://github.com/aldeka/eventslist
>
> (Tech note: It's actually a static HTML file that is Apache Alias'd to load
> when you visit http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events (i.e.,
> it's not integrated into the Mailman templating system). It's good enough to
> use for now, and one day we might get around to making it actually integrate
> with the templates and be useful for more than just this one list. And then
> it can be useful for more than just OpenHatch!)

Thanks for sharing! Mailman pages have always been a sore spot for me.
I poked in KDE to see if anyone is up for making ours prettier too.


Cheers
Lydia

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