Just in time for the Easter holidays, I managed to finish and bring online the
shiny new website for the Ca3D-Engine!
The change away from the previous, dark themed website has long been planned:
I've been looking for a new theme in light colors and professional look for
years, but only in the fall of 2007 I've finally found one that I immediately
liked.
As that new theme was made for the content management system "Joomla", of which
the new version 1.5 happened to be released on 2008-January-22, I started the
migration to both the new CMS and the new theme only a few days later. All old
contents was converted and revised during the move to the new system.
My main goals with the new website are:
- to achieve a new, fresh and professional look-and-feel that is both
fancy but also focuses on the content,
- to make it easier to write and manage news items than can be discussed
and commented directly in the Ca3DE forums and be picked up as RSS feeds,
and
- to create a consistent experience that includes also the forum and the
documentation wiki (the very same theme will be implemented for the forum
and the wiki during the next few days).
Although the improving and tweaking of the new website and theme will
certainly be an ongoing process, I guessed that the website is now good enough
and ready for release, with Easter being an appropriate release date.
By the way, the original theme is named "firenzie" and was designed by
RocketTheme.com.
Anyways, back on topic: Most and above all on this day, I wish you a good and
happy Easter!