On 22/02/11 10:59, I wrote:
This uses a fairly simple two-level navigation hierarchy: major sections
in the top menu, sub-sections on the left. Since one of the main
problems with the CMS is that the same page skeleton and navigation
SSI's are used on every page, I've added some javascript to manage the
complexity. With Javascript and CSS enabled, each page should show
feedback on the currently selected section and page, and only the
section sub-menu relevant to the current section (hiding the long list
of other section pages). With Javascript turned off, the navigation
still works but readers dont' get the "you are here" feedback or the
simplified menus.
I've just been trying to combine the various suggestions on IA into a
consolidated structure, and I've come to the conclusion that my
prototype is too limiting by requiring everything to be at one physical
level. For example, the tools section includes rdfcat, schemagen,
eyeball, etc. Each of these should really be a separate page, but think
that makes the navigation and physical structure a bit clunky:
Jena
Documentation
Overview (/jena/documentation/index.html)
RDF API (/jena/documentation/rdf.html)
...
Tools: schemagen (/jena/documentation/tools_schemagen.html)
Tools: eyeball (/jena/documentation/tools_eyeball.html)
Better would be:
Jena
Documentation
Overview (/jena/documentation/index.html)
RDF API (/jena/documentation/rdf.html)
...
Tools
Overview (/jena/documentation/tools/index.html)
schemagen (/jena/documentation/tools/schemagen.html)
eyeball (/jena/documentation/tools/eyeball.html)
I'll go at generalising the Javascript & template to make it possible to
have multiple levels of content (or, to at least add one more level).
Ian
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