New website

[Turbine]

What does the new icon represent?

Unity, world peace, one nail in the coffin. I love it, but am uncertain as to what it is.

[Laurent]

http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=4960.0

(jump directly to the last pages, unless you have hours to waste )

[chrisdembia]

The new website is BEAUTIFUL!!!

[FRex]

In Sound and probably in all classes docs if you click on inherited and not overridden member you are taken to original class page even though inherited class lists all inherited members and their descriptions.

[Laurent]

I didn't find any Doxygen option that would control that (I already have INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB enabled), and Google doesn't give useful answers

[Nexus]

In Sound and probably in all classes docs if you click on inherited and not overridden member you are taken to original class page even though inherited class lists all inherited members and their descriptions.

That is the intended behavior. Doxygen only duplicates brief descriptions, but not detailed descriptions.

[FRex]

There are full descriptions of every function in inherited classes because INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB is enabled.

[Frizi]

I think there should be a public repository (on github maybe) with this website. The design is quite good now,  but still there is a lot of space for improvements (some UX stuff, community tutorials, URLs not rewritten!). The site lacks a developer spending his time exclusively for it. Great libraries and tools needs professional websites. Look at the http://git-scm.com/, the site is open sourced.

First of all, maintaining a big blob of separated php files is a hell of mess, even for the site like that. Look at some MVC frameworks and adapt the philosophy or leave it for the community. If i would have done it, I would have picked the onepage approach. Look at the Angular.js library. It is bloody easy to do some MVC magic without even having php. The downside is javascript dependency (which could be eliminated for basic usecases).

[G.]

MVC, angular js, really ? I'm not sure it's that interesting to use hype frameworks or DP just for the sake of it. It's only a static site with very few pages.

[Frizi]

Maybe it is a bit of overkill, but still, please, at least make the URLs more friendly. And after all, javascript libraries are not bad if you actually use the included code. MVC is superlight concept that can be applied to almost every website that has more than one page. For the sake of expandability.

[eXpl0it3r]

It has been stated before and it's a good thing, the website won't include any JavaScript. It's the current "cool thing todo" and makes all the Ruby-MongoDB-JavaScript-Whatever-Hippsters happy, but in many/most cases, it's really not needed.

The URLs are friendly enough as well. Yes they have some .php at the end, is the world gonna end because of it? Nope. Are the search engines having a hard time understanding it? Nope. Are the users confused on which site they are? Nope. Do people looking at the URL not understand where they are being linked to? Nope.
So much drama for a bit visual advancement.

Whether or not the website will be made open source is Laurent's decision and if he decides against it, then he can handle the back-end however he wants. Of course I'm sure he's always open for constructive feedback, that can be adjusted quickly (i.e. no whole rewrite of the website, etc...)!

[Laurent]

please, at least make the URLs more friendly

Can you explain what you mean? In my opinion they are already quite friendly.

[timo777]

In my opinion they're indeed fine. But maybe you could remove the  .php extension.

[Nexus]

If you do that, you will invalidate all the links written in the SFML Game Development book (and on many other websites). Keep the URLs.

[Laurent]

But maybe you could remove the  .php extension.

What difference does it make?