On Monday 01 June 2009 01:24:24 Cl?ment wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
Is there any chance of reconstructing the logo without the CamelCase? It's
always been Freenet not FreeNet.
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