International CMSimple_XH Sites

[cmb]

Hello Community,

I wanted to ask, if there are guidelines regarding the international CMSimple_XH sites: URL, template, content, newsboxes, up-to-dateness etc.?

Of course there's the principle of corporate identity -- but is that necessary for a small OS-Project? Compare e.g. http://joomla.org/ and http://joomla.de/ (BTW a not so small OS-Project).

Christoph

[svasti]

May be we should put up some guidelines? Imho there are no guidelines.

Gert should be able to answer this.

[oldnema]

It's a stupid proposal to declare a competition for a new template for the official site CMSimple_XH? (and maybe a new logo?).
Designers certainly would have taken this gauntlet
Josef

[Gert]

Hello,

there was no conventions about the international CMSimple_XH sites last time. Every operator of an international CMSimple_XH site is responsible by himself, to provide "up to date" informations about CMSimple_XH in his language.

If one of these sites was not "up to date" for a long time, I remove it from the language menu of cmsimple-xh.de, like the russian CMSimple_XH site.

Using the standard template is recommended and wanted, but not mandatory, for example have a look at Tatas site.

cmsimple-xh.de is up to date (history and newsbox - 1.5.4), and I have added Oldnemas site to the language menu, because he has a "CMSimple_XH site" now, and the contents are up to date

Gert

PS: I have given the Czech flag a border, for a better look (like the other flags), you can use it, if you want, for CMSimple_XH 1.5.4

[cmb]

Hi,

Every operator of an international CMSimple_XH site is responsible by himself, to provide "up to date" informations about CMSimple_XH in his language.

If one of these sites was not "up to date" for a long time, I remove it from the language menu of cmsimple-xh.de, like the russian CMSimple_XH site.

Using the standard template is recommended and wanted, but not mandatory

That seems reasonable.

About the up-to-dateness: IMO it would be of great help for the owners of the international sites, if any relevant changes to cmsimple-xh.com, would be communicated in some form perhaps by an RSS feed or circular emails.

I have given the Czech flag a border, for a better look (like the other flags), you can use it, if you want, for CMSimple_XH 1.5.4

It looks more uniform this way, but IMO it would be even better, if we would use flag images that are readily available for "all" countries (see http://www.cmsimpleforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4835). And I'd rather avoid making any change to 1.5.4 (last time that did terribly go wrong )

It's a stupid proposal to declare a competition for a new template for the official site CMSimple_XH? (and maybe a new logo?).

This might something to be considered. I'm particularly not happy with the fact, that the logo is available in 16² pixels only. But for now we should wait at least until the "Thank you Peter" template contest is over -- after all its meant to provide template designers the ability to show their appreciation for Peter's great work.

Christoph