[ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:35:59 -0400
Nice; overall, I like it. Clean, simple, and straightforward. We can get
fancier/prettier if there's ever someone with the skills, desire, and time to
do so.
A few suggestions:
* Regarding the Home, News, Download, About, Wiki, Forum links:
** They should be left-aligned instead of right-aligned
** The About link should either be the left-most, second left-most (if we keep
the Home link), or right-most link.
* I would change the text to something like:
CipherShed is completely free data encryption software for keeping your data
secure and private. Learn how to use CipherShed. [Make the aforementioned
sentence a link to the Truecrypt User Guide documentation, our wiki, or
whatever will most quickly and easily/painlessly show users what CipherShed is
and how to use it. It would be ideal if we could rebrand and re-publish the
TrueCrypt User Guide from v.7.1a]
CipherShed is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. [I deliberately ordered
them like this because I think (but may be wrong) that this is most common, and
ordered by overall OS market share]
The CipherShed project is open-source, which means everyone is encouraged to
examine how it works and contribute new ideas and improvments. We believe
greater participation leads to greater security and usability for everyone. To
get involved, check out our mailing list, forum, source code [link to github],
or come chat on IRC.
For more information about the CipherShed project, please visit our Wiki.
Hm, good point, Stephen. Niklas, how hard do you think it would be for us to
have a nicely-stylised page like your screenshot without WordPress?
Alain
-----Original Message-----
From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Stephen R Guglielmo
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:32
To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬
<compul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did a quick "proof of concept" kind of page, which is only running
> locally so far. here's a screen:
> https://ciphershed.org/moin_static197/wp_screen_01.png
> I believe that looks far more professional and inviting. It runs on WP,
> so others can edit, write new status updates, update download links etc.
I think that looks good.
I'm sort of concerned about security running both a big PHP webapp
(WordPress) and a Python app (MoinMoin). Both WordPress [1] and PHP
[2] itself have had a history of security issues. I'm not as familiar
with MoinMoin/Python, but looking at their site [3], they have a
history too.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress#Vulnerabilities
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Security
[3] http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
I dunno, we're supposed to be sticking with a "KISS" philosophy. It
makes me feel like we should be using plain old .html files edited
with vi. The more complicated things are, the more things that can go
wrong.
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