Revision: 1493 http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/geany-plugins/?rev=1493&view=re... Author: dmaphy Date: 2010-07-31 19:41:14 +0000 (Sat, 31 Jul 2010)

Log Message: ----------- website: fill the landing page with more content and useful information

Modified Paths: -------------- www/staging/content/start.html

Modified: www/staging/content/start.html =================================================================== --- www/staging/content/start.html 2010-07-31 15:50:29 UTC (rev 1492) +++ www/staging/content/start.html 2010-07-31 19:41:14 UTC (rev 1493) @@ -1,3 +1,62 @@ <h2>Welcome</h2> -We like to offer you a few of plugins for the Geany IDE here.<br /> -You can browse through the plugins in the left navigation bar, you'll find there also the installation manual for each plugin. + +<p> +What you will find here is a lot of plugin stuff for +<a href="http://www.geany.org">Geany</a>. There is a +<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/geany-plugins/">Geany Plugins project</a> +containing a lot of plugins, which is developed by various developers on +<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/geany-plugins/">SourceForge</a>. +</p> + +<p> +Any plugin delivered with the Geany Plugins project is listed on the left +sidebar (Or rather any plugin providing a valid README file written in +reStructuredText. There are some plugins in an early development state, not +having such a README file yet.) +</p> + +<p> +There also are some third party plugins for Geany. They are already listed on +the left navigation bar, too, but maybe content is missing, yet. Feel free to +kick our buts on IRC to complete also this pages and fill them with +information. +</p> + +<p>If you are searching for <em>any</em> plugin for Geany or information about +a plugin, this website is (or will be) the right place to get those +informations.</p> + +<p> +The pages for any plugin delivered with the Geany Plugins project are +automatically generated by a shell script using +<a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">rst2html from doctools</a> +and <a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/">HTML Tidy</a>. Basis for that are +the README files for each plugin, checked out and updated from +<a href="http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geany-plugins/">SVN +</a>, so if you think there's something wrong, you can feel free to <a href= +"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=222729&atid=1056532%22%3Erepor... +issues</a> against the according plugin (or even this website) at <a href= +"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=222729&atid=1056532%22%3ESourc... +</a>.<br /> The <a href= +"http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geany-plugins/www/staging/" +>source code of this script</a> is available on SourceForge, too. +</p> + +<p> +If you are a plugin developer and wonder why your plugin is not listed here, +there may be several reasons for that: +</p> +<ul> + <li>you didn't knew of this site yet</li> + <li>the maintainers of this site didn't know of your plugin yet</li> + <li>your plugin is part of the Geany Plugins project, but</li> + <ul> + <li>you don't have a README file written in reStructuredText</li> + <li>or your README file is empty</li> + <li>or a README file doesn't even exist</li> + </ul> +</ul> +<p> +For any of these reasons, you will find more detailed hints on the +<a href="index.php?site=README">List or update a plugin page</a>. +</p>

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