Hey Tim, I think your proposal makes a lot of sense. +1.
And I think "About" is not so silly. It could tell a bit about the history of OpenLayers, about the people behind the project and so on. Regards, Andreas. Tim Schaub wrote: > Hey- > > Following up on previous discussion about links on our website, I'd like > to hear opinions on how things should be organized. > > Our site is structured with two levels of menu. On the homepage, things > look like this: > > 1. Top Level > ------------ > a. Home (http://www.openlayers.org) > b. Gallery (http://gallery.openlayers.org) > c. Support & Development (http://trac.openlayers.org) > > 2. Second Level > --------------- > a. Sponsorship (http://openlayers.org/sponsorship/) > b. Wiki (http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki) > c. Blog (http://openlayers.org/blog/) > d. FAQ (http://faq.openlayers.org/) > e. Download (http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToDownload) > f. Email Lists (http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo) > > The second level menu from the gallery is gallery specific, and the > second level menu on the Support & Dev item is trac specific. > > Given this structure, you might say we want to drive people primarily to > the homepage, gallery, and trac site. Our secondary goal is to get > people to read about sponsorship, read our wiki (redundant with trac), > blog, FAQ, download information, and join a mailing list. > > Based on a very non-scientific analysis of our website usage, it looks > like people are primarily viewing our "documentation" (I quote this > because it takes several forms, and in the end, everything is > documentation). > > My impression is that our examples are what a lot of people end up > relying on to learn OpenLayers. I also think we all agree that the > growing prose documentation is a better starting place for most people. > > I'd like to propose that we more prominently feature our documentation > and examples in the menu structure. I can imagine a menu structure that > looked like the following: > > 1. Top Level > ------------ > a. Documentation > b. Demos > c. Download > d. Development > > 2. Second Level > --------------- > a. About > b. Blog > c. Sponsorship > > I admit, this is largely cribbed from http://jquery.com/. I also think > "About" is a bit silly, but I don't want to think about an alternative > right now. Basically, it's a placeholder for "other places we want to > direct people." > > The "Documentation" page could direct people to API docs, prose docs, > and the FAQ. In addition, this page should link to mailing lists and > talk about IRC. > > The "Demos" page could include links to the examples page and the gallery. > > The "Download" page already exists. > > The "Development" page would be our main trac page. > > Ok, enough from me for now. Thoughts? > > Tim > > > -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
