I am certainly interested in contributing (as I have time...). I would maybe suggest making these upcoming headings active voice:
"Downloads | Documentation | Messages" Maybe: "Download | Documentation | Interact" or something like that would emphasize the openness of the community to contributors of all kinds. Blake On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/04/08 05:50, Blake wrote: >> >> That's a very legitimate point, Calum. I guess the root of the problems >> is that .org provides a lot of information on a single, rather daunting >> page. .com provides a lot of info well, but has a nice tree-style >> navigation layout that starts with a simple home/root page. Maybe we just >> need to get the .org site to follow those good design principles a little >> more. I know that even for me, an OpenSolaris user since the early days of >> the project, the .org site can be a little thick when it comes to finding >> what I need. >> >> cheers, >> Blake > > Hi Blake, > > Thanks for this feedback. Any way you want to participate is welcome. > OpenSolaris.org is ~6K pages of content (not including ARC case files) with > 9 subsite zones, so your help is appreciated! > The plan is to start migrating to new infrastructure fairly soon. > > That new infrastructure is Xwiki, so it lends itself toward a very wide > architecture and arbitrarily deep. http://www.xwiki.org provides a nice > playground, so if you want to prototype ideas and send them along, I'd be > grateful for your help to explore a future architecture that is more sane > for all types of users. > > As a start, I've put together an information architecture document that > outlines one method of organizing the content: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/content/info_arch.pdf > > So, for example, we'd have just one menu at the top, something like the > following > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/About > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Groups > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Downloads > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Documentation > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Messages > > Then, for example, the Groups page above would have some general content > about OSOL Groups and pointers to spaces for each type, as follows > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/UserGroups > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Communities > > Then, the Projects page could have general content for Projects and > sub-pages with details > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Creating > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Creating#instantiation > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Creating#bestpractices > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Contributing > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Contributing#patches > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Contributing#translations > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/SourceControl > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/SourceControl#mercurial > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/SourceControl#subversion > > At this level, for example, we can specify 'in page' navigation, so you can > jump from the top of the SourceControl page down to the Mercurial section. > And, we'd also be able to have several sections of 'panel' navigation, > beyond the general menu that links back to About, Groups, Documentation, > Downloads, and Messages. This is good, because we can share additional > navigation panels across Projects without those panels appearing at the Main > level. And readers can collapse the panels they don't use. > > Going further _across_ the rabbit hole, for example, I think (Chris and Alan > correct me if I'm wrong about this) we'd have > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/pkg > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/svosug > opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ogb > etc... > > This is all of course a WIP, so any comments and thoughts about how to > organize to our best advantage are welcomed. Now is a very good time to talk > about this and do some work on templates. > > Regards, > Michelle > > > _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
