I made a beginning of new WEB site for Xith.
Here’s the result of my hours of work : http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/index.php
There are still some articles missing, but I think it does looks good.
Looks good so far !
I’d rather have the top logo smaller.
Lilian 
nice … very nice 
Okay, I’ll do it. I hope the template will adjust automatically (don’t know if you can change the top logo size as is).
Great.
+1 for it.
Also +1 for smaller top logo.
Yuri
Looks good, I like it
William
purdy!!! For some reason I really likw the simplicity.
Great work! Like it!
Now working to make a smaller logo… ahh what a pain I have to edit the template manually… If you see some “bizarre” things in the Web site don’t worry… I handle perfectly the situation…
Done, the logo is now 80 pixels high instead of 150 before ! Much better…
I’m waiting for WilliamDenniss’ approval&help to make a full switch.
I have not transfered docs on the new site yet, the links point to the old site, because I’m going to do a global review of Xith doc, and I’ll see what to keep and what to clean/rewrite/write from scratch.
I’ve made several improvements to the new website. Added the Credits, License, Projects and Features articles, added a 16x16 icon to the site, modified top menu (filled with useful informations).
I’m still waiting for authorization to make a full switch.
wow that does look nice ;D
+1 from me too.
The top row of links are a little confusing though. Maybe it would work better with a second group of links to external sites under the main menu.
Is it possible to get the URLs looking better?
http://xith.org/Docs is a bit nicer than
http://xith.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=28
And google treats the former better as well.
How does your source code page work? Is it auto-generated? It would be a bit of a pain to maintain if it’s not.
Thank you for this, there has been a lot of talk over the years about site re-designs and the likes, but little actual work (except by me).
Will.
Nice.
Should be using the new Java logo (assuming you have permission to show a Java logo at all).
Hey I can see you’ve added Jack Flowers to the projects page ! Nice.
Let’s hope other projects based on Xith will show up soon (good for promotion).
A small remark : on the credits page, I think I can be credited for the initial port of JOGL to JSR231…
The web site layout is better again today, with a cleaner page header and smaller logo : So when is the swap to xith.org scheduled ? ;D
Regards
Lilian
Done. Is it better ?
I’m afraid it’s not possible. Joomla! is a CMS and it manage content automatically, I think I can’t change the name of the pages. What I can do, however, is making redirections from http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/Docs to the right page.
Oh, and by the way how do we change the domain name. How do you handle hosting, Will ?
Yes it is.
I thought it was one thing I could do for Xith. And I did it. 8)
Done. Oh, and I need a permission to show the Java logo ?
Hmm… I’m afraid I didn’t bothered about all those copyright/permissions thingies…
That was the only project I could remember for having played it on JavaPause.com 
Yes indeed.
Done. Thanks for pointing this out.
I think William should do that soon… I don’t own the xith.org domain name ;D
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Done. Is it better ?
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Yes, that looks really good now - thanks
That’s a pity. I realise we can make the redirections fairly easy, so at least the main menu options can have nice links. Ah well.
I was thinking I’d just give you the FTP/cPanel passwords for you to set the site up on the xith.org server.
Good news.
Before the site is moved, what is the todo list? I see there’s a few references to the old tikiwiki site on the Docs page:
http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=28
Design wise, I personally prefer to reduce the amount of stock images used and use actual images relating to Xith3D instead. E.g. on the download page, a couple of cool screen shots could work nicely (e.g. with the toolkit, some loaded models)
I’ve never used Joomla before, I assume it is easy to have multiple users set up with different permissions so they can create and edit pages?
Great stuff.
Cheers,
Will.
Hi,
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That’s a pity. I realise we can make the redirections fairly easy, so at least the main menu options can have nice links. Ah well.
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Can’t we use URL rewriting to give nice names to selected URLs? It is a common practice for bigger portal engines such as Apache JetSpeed 2 etc. There is a mod_rewrite module for Apache, and it is very easy to do rewriting in Tomcat using filters.
Yuri
Yep, although I don’t know exactly the way I’ll do that.
This is beyond my knowledge, but if you know how to do that, I’ll give you privileges to do so.
OK for FTP, but a problem is Joomla! uses a SQL database so wether I can uses the sql.free.fr database or I can copy the data on an other database currently hosted on xith.org (you have MySQL support, don’t you ? ??? )
That’s right, that’s part of the TODO list to transfer the documentation. But as I’m thinking about rewriting it I’m still reluctant to move the existant one. However this can be a transitional, temporary solution.
That’s right, and stock images were put by lack of time… I’ll modify that when I’ll have time but I consider writing docs more important. And as soon as I’ll do serious test-cases for the loaders we’ll have some screenshots.
Yeah. I’ve created you super admin accout (check your PM).
And anyone that want to be a Writer can ask me to create him/her an account.
I added submenus that are contextual and looks like that (attached image).