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Propel.phpdb.org 2009

This is a scratch pad for ideas for the restructuring of the site.

Motivation

Over time Trac's Wiki has slowly degenerated and is now filled with out-dated information and is somewhat disorganized. It also needs a face lift to be more attractive.

The Plan

  • Re-design site structure
  • Introduce a new design
  • Hard work
  • Something else
  • Launch
  • World Domination

Schedule

Spring 2009, to be defined more accurately later.

Drafts

 http://veikko.fi/propelorm.org/

Needs candy of course (I'm no designer) but I'd like to keep it minimalistic - very little text, max 5 items in the main menu and a few code examples (in the end that's what we all want see straight away)

Me Wants

Random collection of ideas picked up along the way. Feel free to add yours below. You can also write to the dev mailing list or join #propel IRC channel in irc.freenode.net.

  • Quick Links (site header or alike main menu)
    • download / install
    • docs
    • support
    • development
    • about
  • Criteria API
  • Comprehensive list of functions that are generated in Base and BasePeer classes
  • A "see Propel in action" page, that very briefly demonstrates the API and some common use cases. The main point being that a visitor first arriving to the site can, in less than 30 seconds, see how Propel lives up to the promise of "smart, easy object persistence".
  • Quick reference/cheat sheets - there could be some very compact quick references to things that are often required during development (ie build.properties, schema.xml and runtime-conf.xml references)
  • Development blog. It would be nice to read some "hey, this is what we have been up to lately" or "check out this cool feature" articles.
    • I've been using Tumblr for my personal blog ( http://blog.veikko.fi). That is a good and simple choice for a fully hosted, fully customizable blog.  http://blog.agavi.org is also powered by tumblr. It doesn't have commenting by default but integrating Disqus is dead simple (just added commenting for blog.veikko.fi).
  • Easier domain and professional, modern imago around that. PropelORM.org is at our disposal should we want that.