Updated TOC

[gnlnx]

Let me know what you think of the changes I've made to the TOC page.

[pjcozzi]

I know you put some effort into this, but I like the old one better. We want to decouple the section intro text from the list of chapters because it reduces the barrier to entry; readers can easily and quickly scan the list of chapters to see if it peeks their interest. Opening with the intro text asks for more of a commitment from the reader. Instead, we'd rather show them the outline, and hope that motivates them to read more.

See my latest commit. I envision the brief TOC as before that links to section and chapter intros. Each section has its own page. I did the Discovering section and the first three chapters so far. If you like it, go ahead and start with the Rendering Techniques and later sections, and I'll finish the chapters in the Discovering section.

I'm also open to style changes, for example, I don't like the chapter links on the main TOC page. Also, feel free to cleanup any of my new HTML; you obviously know more about CSS than I do.

[gnlnx]

No worries. I'll check out your latest commit and follow that style.

[pjcozzi]

OK. I'll finish the Discovering section and do the Software Design (VII) section. Can you do the others? It goes pretty quick when you get rolling.

Word on the street is the book was already released in London since a shipment arrived early, so I'd like to get the website up next weekend (end of July). Do you think that is reasonable for us?

[pjcozzi]

Given that there's some external links to the OpenGL Insights website already, I added pages for section intros, so the site can go up, but we'll add the chapter intros as planned. No rush.

http://www.khronos.org/news/events/siggraph-los-angeles-2012
http://www.khronos.org/news/events/opengl-20th-anniversary-party

[pjcozzi]

@gnlnx @Groovounet I'm adding links for all chapter in all sections tonight, but will need help from you guys - if possible - to add intros for each chapter.

[pjcozzi]

I added placeholders for all chapters that include links to the author bios and code. All we need to do now is add intros for each chapter.

[Groovounet]

Hi Patrick,

Honestly it sounds very improbable to me that I will be able to help on
that:

• I need to finish my GPU Pro 4 chapter for friday
• I need to work on my presentation at Siggraph
• I need to finish my OpenGL 4.3 review for Siggraph as well
• I would enjoy to finish the OpenGL Sample Pack 4.3 as well but this is
  already unlikely to happen.

Very sorry about that but I just can't either and this is why I suggested
to release now and complete this good addition later.

Thanks,
Christophe

On 23 July 2012 02:42, Patrick Cozzi <
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I added placeholders for all chapters that include links to the author
bios and code. All we need to do now is add intros for each chapter.

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[pjcozzi]

lol. Funny, how I have many of the same deadlines: GPU Pro 4 chapter and SIGGRAPH presentation.

I might get some time to work on this tonight and tomorrow, so don't worry about it. Release any time you want, and I'll get the updates in as soon as I can.

[Groovounet]

Erm, how can I release the website?

On 23 July 2012 16:47, Patrick Cozzi <
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wrote:

lol. Funny, how I have many of the same deadlines: GPU Pro 4 chapter and
SIGGRAPH presentation.

I might get some time to work on this tonight and tomorrow, so don't
worry about it. Release any time you want, and I'll get the updates in as
soon as I can.

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[pjcozzi]

Can't we redirect www.openglinsights.com to the ftp site provided by the domain, so all we have to do it move files from git to the ftp site? blog.openglinsights.com will still point to the blog.

[Groovounet]

I see... so you want to put the pages on that FTP. I thought we would have
the data on your FTP, it sounds either to me to have everything at the same
location to maintain. Then I could have just redirect
www.openglinsight.comto your FTP and done.

What do you think?

On 23 July 2012 16:54, Patrick Cozzi <
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wrote:

Can't we redirect www.openglinsights.com to the ftp site provided by the
domain, so all we have to do it move files from git to the ftp site?
blog.openglinsights.com will still point to the blog.

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[pjcozzi]

I put the larger pdf files on my university's account (the links are already setup), but I was planning to put the rest of the site (under 10 MB) on the domain's ftp so we can both have access to it.

[Groovounet]

Sounds good to me!

On 23 July 2012 17:09, Patrick Cozzi <
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wrote:

I put the larger pdf files on my university's account (the links are
already setup), but I was planning to put the rest of the site (under 10
MB) on the domain's ftp so we can both have access to it.

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