Symphony CMS Community Site
Thank you to the community for your support of the Symphony Factory project, and to Nils and Johanna Hörrmann for their work on the beautiful responsive web design.
Moving away from the complexity of the existing Symphony site, we will integrate community activity into a single stream of content, which will include discussions, questions, blog posts, showcase entries and events, as indicated by the the mockup in the introduction to the Symphony Factory project by Nils and Johanna.
A separate instance of the Symphony site will serve as a centralized Members API and authentication system, using the Members extension. This membership database will serve as a sort of air traffic control tower for accessing each of the sites in the network. If you have access to one site, you will have access to all sites in the network with a single login.
With the current plan, the community site will focus on the community interactions, flowing all content into a single stream. Specific pages will filter the different types of content.
The basic architecture of the site should follow this structure:
- Home / Stream
- Discussions
- Questions
- Blog
- Showcase
- Events
- About
The Symphony Network navigation bar will contain the links to the subdomains of the supporting satellite sites and the user profile information for the authenticated member.
The drop down serves as an area for accessing the project download and GitHub repository, the network navigation and the user profile form.
The Community site will serve as the main hub of activity, and the satellite sites will include:
- Documentation
- Extensions
- Ninjas
- xpathr
Language-specific regional sites will be featured in the Network navigation drop down.
- Germany
- Italy
- Romania
If other language groups are interested in building and maintaining other regional sites, please let us know so that we can factor these additional links into the design and navigation.
Links to the Symphony Network services and social channels will also be featured in the Network navigation drop down:
- GitHub
- Vimeo
- Flickr