Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to start a overhaul of the xwiki.org home page + a first > level navigation overhaul. > > Today: > * Home page = list the different products > * First level nav = the ecosystem panel > > Problems: > * We now have a single product: XE and all the others are actually > modules that plugin into the main products. Hence we shouldn't focus > on other products so much IMO. > * I'd like to view xwiki.org as a forge of projects. Today our top > level projects are the ones listed here: http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/ > * The main page should be more dynamic and show some news and activity > instead of being static > * People are confused by the top level navigation vs the second level > one because they both use panels and it's not easy to differentiate them > > Proposal: > > * Use a horizontal top level navigation with the following items (from > left to right): > - Overview or Home (the main page) > - Platform > - Projects (when clicked will list all top level projects) - We could > have the list of subproject available as submenu items too (as it's > done on http://jboss.org/) > - Support (when clicked will explain the various ways to get support > including mailing list/forum, irc/jabber, FAQ & listing companies > offering commercial support) > - Contribute or Community (when clicked we'll get dev.xwiki.org) > - Playground > > This means that the panels on the right will become the second level > navigation and the content will depend completely on where you are on > the site. > > * Have some facilities links in the header on the right: > - News > - Downloads (as a visible button maybe) > > * On the home page: > - Have a nice diagram of the xwiki platform that shows how XE, XE > modules are positioned on the platform so that people understand right > away that xwiki is a collaborative web dev platform > - Have a Highlight box with XE so that users looking for a full- > fledged wiki can quickly see it and click on it + maybe one featured > screenshot of an entry from the References page that would be > different every time the page is refreshed (this could encourage > people to add references + provide a link to the references directly) > - Have a Featured project box and list 3-4 featured projects (XE, XEM, > XEclipse, XOffice for ex to start with) > - Have some news: > -- latest 5 blog post titles > -- latest 5 code zone additions (all snippet, plugins, macro, apps, > etc included) > -- latest 5 mailing list threads subjects (with links to our nabble > forum) > > We could not have any second level navigation for the home page in > order to have more space for displaying the elements above. > > WDYT?
Big +1 I would also move panels to the left. It's more natural to find links there. Jerome. > > If/when we're ok in term of content maybe Cati (or anyone interested) > could provide some mockups of what it could look like. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS: Let's not get bogged down with details at this point. I think > what's important is to make progress and refine later on. What's > important is that we agree on the broad lines at this stage. > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
