Haleh, thanks for addressing these issues. One concern I have after a quick look is that on arriving at a pages such as http://cwiki.apache.org/TUSCANY/sdo-java.html some of the links on the left under a given heading go off to a scope that is not intuitive from the page that you were on. E.g. under the "General" sidebar heading, the FAQ link for Java SDO goes to a page that I think is intended to contain generic cross language SDO questions, i.e. up one level of abstraction from the page heading. It's been that way since version 3 of the file, and I can't work out whether it's intended that way, or just a result of copying the content from an existing C++ page.
The next sidebar heading below FAQ --- "Downloads" --- relates to downloading SDO Java (i.e. at the same level of abstraction of the current page). I think it would be good if the sidebar headings grouped links at the same level of abstraction and made this clear from the heading name - e.g. "Tuscany General", or "SDO General" BTW, FWIW, this prompted me to just catalogue the set of tuscany-dev notes that I have put an "FAQ" label against when reading the list. I had the intention of reviewing this list to see what was worth refining into well formed info snippets some time, but haven't got to it yet. Maybe we can divide and conquer to add to the website's FAQ set. Does anyone else have anything like this? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00469.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg13291.html Ron Gavlin's response to tuscany-user of 5th of Jan (cant find a very good archive URL for this one) My response to Alexander Pankov of the 26th of Jan on t-user (again URL not readily found) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00560.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00610.html The thread started by Adriano Crestani on 15th Feb "mvn problem?" Unanswered thread from Ignacio on 16th Feb Frank's responses to Murtaza Goga in the thread started 20th March http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-tuscany-user/200703.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The thread entitled "Root property that is not containment" started 29th of Jan The thread entitled "Getting started with Tuscany databinding" started on 10th April Regards, Kelvin. On 12/04/07, haleh mahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, As mentioned in [1] I started working on the website and the first phase is ready for review. My first attempt ended up with something other than what I had originally planned; which was to move content. Instead, I worked on the readability of the website. I have tried to use a consistent look and feel across the pages to make it easier to find information. In addition, I tried to make the information available progressively ( allowing the user to decide if they want to learn more). Here is the layout at a high level for the Tuscany Website ( http://cwiki.apache.org/TUSCANY/) - Home page - On this page you will find the general stuff that apply to the whole Tuscany as well as links to each subproject and Downloads. - Each subproject has an overview page, for example SCA overview or DAS overview. On the overview page you find a brief introduction to the subproject and links to resources which are introductory information on the subproject, for example white papers, articles, webinar links if any. - Each subproject also has a more detailed page for those who want to get more info about that particular subproject. For example, SCA Java, SDO C++, DAS RDB or DAS LDAP. - Each detailed subproject page's navigation bar looks the same and provides more detailed information on the project. For example, FAQ, Documentation, How to get involved, Downloads, etc. - I tried to keep each page's navigation information to the minimum information that is needed for that stage in order to make it easier to find information. I'd like your feedback on this phase before we go ahead and put all the content in place. - Is the navigation intuitive? - Do we need additional information? If everyone is happy with the look and feel, let's try to keep the consistency across the pages as we add content. For the next step, I am trying to capture content from the old website, the old wiki and mailing threads. Please review the content on the overview pages (already there) and correct it if needed. There is a lot to be done and any help or feedback is very welcomed :) Thanks, Haleh [1] - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-tuscany-dev/200704.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
