[ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity

  • From: Rocki Hack <rocki.hack@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:43:56 +0200

You could use bootstrap.js. It's pure "meta" html and it makes the website
"responsive" to your viewing device.
Look at the examples: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#examples


2014-06-18 17:35 GMT+02:00 Alain Forget <aforget@xxxxxxx>:

> 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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