Foreword: This is not a rant. Well. Maybe it is. I'm just typing down
some thoughts. My (humble) thoughts. Not meant to offend anyone.
Simon wrote:
-use a more usable default theme - I vote for this clone of monobook
(http://themes.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Tikipedia), because I
dislike both fixed and three column layouts
Wikis are nice and all, but in our case the main project page you look
as less as a wiki as possible (doesn't mean you can't use it as a
back-end, but you should hide as much of the wiki-related stuff (edit,
history, etc.) as possible unless the user is logged in).
Wikipedia gets away with emphasizing the wiki features because that's
what Wikipedia is all about. We should emphasize the content.
"Category > Foo > Bar" is also bad style. It's either redundant or (more
often) a symptom of a horrible site structure. You should not browse
through a list to get the information you want - that's what hyperlinks
are all about.
And talking about distinctiveness - the first thing that comes to my
mind when I see Monobook is Wikipedia. You don't want OGP to be
associated with "interesting and all, but let's check a trusted source
before I buy anything".
Looking through the themes on that site I found this one the most appealing:
http://themes.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kubrick
It does not feel like a wiki. Well. It feels like a blog, but without
the login-box (just a link in the upper right corner in gray-on-white
would be enough), without the comboboxes, without shoutbox (yuck!) and
without the blog-like-content it's just a "normal" website.
I don't like those dropdown menus aswell but that's just me.
Now imagine the white content box mostly empty, a big OGD1 in isometric
view (on white) with some computer-generated shadow... Yea, it's not
perfect. Still some blog-like. But you could fix that...
Felix
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