Gallery Releases Beta test the new Gallery website!
Posted on Monday, September 05, 2005 @ 06:57:27 CDT Please note that this announcement is for the main Gallery site, not for NukedGallery.
In preparation for the upcoming Gallery 2 release, we've been secretly working away on a brand new website!
The new site is in beta until September 9th while we shake out any
kinks in it. We will be periodically refreshing it with the latest data
from the live site. Read more for more information about the new site
and how you can help us to test it.
About the new site
The first thing that you'll notice is that it looks totally different! The new theme is provided by Trae McCombs,
founder of both themes.org and linux.com. He created a theme with
intuitive site navigation that works with the colors of our new logo
and provides a light and welcoming feeling to new users.
Under the covers, you may notice that we've moved from the Postnuke
content management system over to Drupal -- but we've still got all the
old data. The data migration has has been a long and difficult process.
It was especially difficult to convert over all our different forum
data from phpBB2, the wiki, our paid support data, and more. This
conversion was performed by was performed by Kitt Hodsden
over the span of several months. She created a push-button script for
us that migrates our data which will let us continually refresh the new
site during our beta test period to keep it up to date.
When we're done with the beta, the new site will replace this one and will become the new gallery.menalto.com. We're using the gallery2.org domain only as a testbed.
What you can do to help us:
You should visit the new site and explore it. Your account should work
there. Please post new stuff in the forums, click all the links,
explore your account settings, etc. Do all the stuff you'd normally do
if you were using this site! Nothing you do will be permanent; We'll
wipe and refresh it from our live data on a semi-daily basis.
If you find things wrong with the new site, please feel free to leave
comments on this post and let us know. Or you can update the issues page on the Gallery Codex with anything you find.
We hope you like what you see!
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