Hello all, about three weeks ago I had a HCI webproject to do. The subject was : improve an existant website (well, I'm not 100% sure that it was the subject, but that what we've done)
I convinced the three other people who worked with me to work on the freenet website. It was a small project though (3 hours with a teacher in the room, + 3 hours max of personal time), so we didn't go far. But maybe some of what we've done could be usefull for the project. Here is the copy/paste of what we've done : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Objective of the new website: - To improve the existing navigation controls of freenetproject.org - To improve it's structural presentation of information on home page Aim of the web-site: - to present the software product and provide support - documentation and tools to users and developers to allow them to use and contribute to the software. Problems: The problems of current website http://freenetproject.org : - irrelevant information for homepage: mainly financial status, we don't know what freenet is - too many items in left navigation menu and not really well structured - documentation section where subsections do not have direct hyperlinks - its confusing Solutions we proposed: - simpler horizontal navigation bar with restructured tree - new menu tree proposition: Home -- what is freenet a bit modified page About freenet: what is freenet philosophy contributors Downloads: freenet tools Contribute: papers -- research and stuff developer Donations donate sponsors Support & feedback help --documentation and stuff faq --move out from help section mailing lists suggestions - restructuralization of documentation page - homepage holds only basic information presenting projects aim and latest news -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course, it's a very early draft, so it needs to be discussed. You'll find attached the files we produced. Please keep in mind it that the aim of the HCI project wasn't to have a pretty site, but a functionnal one (so, it's not ugly, but it's not pretty either). Some files are missing, we mainly focused on the navigation and the structure of the site. It's not very important though, since the contents are exactly the same that already are on the current site. Oh, and I almost forgot : we should keep the financial status on the homepage, between the download link and the news (we got rid of it because we found on the moment it wasn't relevant, but in fact, it's interesting to know about the financial health of a project). Last thing : I still don't have my grade for this project, so I don't know if it's good job or not ;) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: freenet_website.tar.gz Type: application/x-compressed-tar Size: 46835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090601/558e303d/attachment.bin>
