Dear all, Today the Debian website displays a new homepage. The web team has been working on renewing the structure, content, layout and scripts that build the site since the last team sprint on March 2019. There has been work mainly in two areas: Creating a new homepage and removing or updating obsolete content. We have two main goals in mind: To simplify the front page in order to make it more readable and attractive to newcomers, and to show the social aspect of the Debian project as well as the operating system that we develop. Although this took more time than we wanted and we don't consider this new homepage final, we think it's a good first step to a much better web site. As we continue to work on restructuring the Debian website, we would like to get help from the wider team, the community and are also considering to gather external help, since we're a small group of people and also participate in other Debian teams. The next steps we expect to take are: - Improve the CSS and layout in general. - Review of the the existing content, with the claim to improve the structure and refreshing content. - A new "download" section that would merge the "CD" and "distrib" folders and helps users to find the most suitable Debian image, guide them to the desired download and finally help to verify and install Debian. - Improve the icons of the homepage, and also for other relevant sections. We're currently not considering changing the website development infrastructure. Pages are written in Website META Language (often abbreviated as “WML”), with scripts written in Perl or Python and reusable tags defined in templates), built with Makefiles. The layout and appearance is mainly handled via CSS files only (we don't use JavaScript for now). We're conscious that this infrastructure is quite different from the "web developing state-of-art" but we feel that it would be really difficult to switch entirely to a new system and we prefer to focus on simplifying the content and structure first. How can you help * Test the new homepage: We particularly welcome feedback related to accessibility and usability. * Help translate the new homepage and related pages to your language. * If you are a web developer or designer, and want to help in the tasks we mentioned in this article, contact us. * We always welcome help on fixing or working on our list of bugs. :-) * Help documenting how web site content is handled. If you want to participate in the Debian web team, please consider reading the [pages related to the website](https://www.debian.org/devel/website/). You can contact us in our public mailing list [debian-www@lists.debian.org](mailto:debian-www@lists.debian.org) and our IRC channel #debian-www. Thanks everybody who made this possible! Kind regards, -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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