Hi Daniel, I like it a lot. The http://pdl.perl.org/?page=reference page is really good, for a noob as myself.
Cheers, Michiel On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Since I have some time this month, I have continued my quest to > improve PDL's website and documentation. I updated the website today, > you can go to http://pdl.perl.org and see the changes. > > I'm trying to take a methodical approach to fix the site. In "Round 1" > (last May) I focused on the look & feel of the website. I also changed > the backend to make it more flexible. Now, in "Round 2" I have focused > on the organizational structure of the website. > > The first thing you'll notice is that the sidebar has changed a fair > bit. Although it is much shorter now, it actually has roughly the same > information as before. It's just better laid out, with less > duplication and redundancy. To make everything work, I did have to do > some work on the content: > > 1) I replaced the Documentation page by two pages: Tutorials and > Reference. Each of these is a well-organized table of contents. They > will go a long way in making documentation easy to find for new uses. > > 2) I rewrote the Development "Get Started" page. It has all the > information from before, and I added information about Git and > Mercurial. This allowed me to remove the two Git links from the > sidebar. All the information from those links (and more) is in the > "Get Started" page, and it is better organized. > > > I would appreciate some help reviewing this site. Please let me know > if you notice any errors or can suggest improvements. In particular, > there are several modules in the Reference section that I did not know > how to categorize. If you go to "Reference" and scroll down to the > bottom you'll see them. I would be grateful for any help in assigning > these modules to a sensible category. > > Work on the site has been slow. Especially the Reference section. It > takes time to write things clearly. I also chose a visual layout that > is very clear, but requires more time to code in HTML. But I think the > result is worth the effort. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > -- > No trees were killed in the generation of this message. A large number > of electrons were, however, severely inconvenienced. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
