Call for designers for our ports website

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-6-13 12:18 , Arjun Salyan wrote:
> Hi Clemens,
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 4:46 AM Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org
> <mailto:cal at macports.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Please keep in mind that we do value URL stability. Specifically, I've
>     recently added redirects so that our old ports.php script will now
>     redirect the various links that are out there on upstream websites to
>     ports.macports.org <http://ports.macports.org>, preserving the
>     search terms where possible:
>       https://github.com/macports/macports-www/pull/20
> 
>  
> Oh, wow. Thank you for this information.
>  
> 
>     It would be appreciated if we could keep the existing URL structure for
>     ports.macports.org <http://ports.macports.org> and not yet change it
>     again, but it seems your
>     changes have modified it.
> 
> 
> While setting the URLs initially I wasn't sure that we would be using
> the subdomain (ports.macports.org <http://ports.macports.org>), so I had
> appended every URL with an extra term (port or ports). For example, the
> category page is located at '/ports/category/<category> [1]. I saw this
> as an opportunity to drop that extra "ports/" from the URL and use just
> '/category/<category>' [2] (I just realised that I was using plural
> categories till now). If this is not a good idea and is discouraged, we
> can switch back to the old URLs.

You can change the URL scheme if there are good reasons, but make sure
that old URLs are redirected to their new equivalent.

- Josh