Website renovation

[Wilrakov]

Hello, I really like Free Pascal and I would like to contribute to its development. Many other programming languages ​​have a fairly modern website. The FPC website is very nice as it is, but its design is getting old. This certainly plays a role in the fact that fewer and fewer people are using it. I have some basic knowledge of web development, and if you don't mind, I would like to try to improve the site while keeping some elements that seem quite important to me  .

[Handoko]

Glad to know you want to offer your help to make the website better. Perhaps you can make a demo site showing us your idea, or at least show us some sketches.

[Wilrakov]

I'm going to work on a first demo version of the website and will come back to you to present it in a while. I'm glad you agree to let me present some of my ideas.

[TRon]

Free pascal website sources are located here.

The website is build, not designed.

[Wilrakov]

Thanks! I mainly want to modify the front-end, but I don't really understand where to modify the actual structure of the pages...
I imagine it's in the adp2html transpiler.

I find the adp file system quite intelligent, even though I personally would have preferred HTML because I'm not yet familiar with adp. It's okay, I'll learn.

[TRon]

Wish I was able to help out there Wilrakov but in all honestly I never played with the website itself.

I say this with the greatest respect to the maintainers but for these kind of projects a website is more like a bit of an afterthought (nobody has actually time to work on it). It should be easy to maintain fast, and take up as little time as possible.

In that regards a overhaul by someone that has a bit more time on his/her hands would probably be appreciated (no idea but I take a guess there) but it might perhaps be a good idea to have a conversation with one of the maintainers in order to get on the same page (in case there is any).

I don't believe you can post issues in the bug-tracker of the website repository but the merge requests seem present.

[marcov]

Thanks! I mainly want to modify the front-end, but I don't really understand where to modify the actual structure of the pages...
I imagine it's in the adp2html transpiler.

It is a simple template generator with a json configuration. The menu template is site-master.adp.

[CM630]

The website looks fine to me.
Maybe the image on the top of the page should not be fixed, but changing, showing different views of Lazarus.
So IMHO before changing anything, maybe some sample views shall be presented, to determine which looks better.


Compare:
https://www.arduino.cc
https://www.python.org
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
https://www.java.com/en/ (do we have a female model to compete with it)?

[dseligo]

https://www.arduino.cc
https://www.python.org
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
https://www.java.com/en/ (do we have a female mode to compete with it)?

Lazarus' website have grey margin (border) on left and right side. All these other sites occupy full width of screen.

[TRon]

I forgot to mention the Lazarus website repository which can be found here.

[Wilrakov]

Well, if you're happy with the current site, we can leave it as it is, but we still need to make a mobile version.

[Aruna]

Well, if you're happy with the current site, we can leave it as it is, but we still need to make a mobile version.

Hello Wilrakov, the site I believe is fully responsive and mobile friendly. It uses bootstrap to do this. Please have a look at the attached screenshot. Why not build a mock-up with your *improvements* if you're so inclined and do have the time then share a link so others can have a look and give you feedback?