From: Pavel C. <pc...@ib...> - 2008-10-23 08:28:37
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Dmitry Yemanov napsal(a): > > While being basically agreed with this idea, I believe we should think > more about the home page contents. There could be some other important > things (aside from the sub-area links) to be placed there. For example, > I have a strong feeling that some kind of news (basic or aggregated) > should exist on the main page instead of being located in the dedicated > news area only. As you could see, many similar projects (e.g. the ones > posted by Roman) share this concept. I basically agree with you, but it's not high on my priority list for main page, where each inch of real estate is a valuable commodity. We can show up one, three or five top news subjects here with link to the rest, but you know, news items are strange beasts. It depends on how many we'll produce, not all are of the same importance (and the importance if often just in the eye of the submitter) etc. > Also, we could have a sponsored > links area that would allow us to get money for placing commercial > offers on the main page (it is unlikely to work well if placed elsewhere). That's very good idea. >> www.firebirdsql.org >> Main page, downloads. > > + About us (intro, history, licenses, SQL compliance, success stories, > etc) -- an absolute must have there, IMHO These things are certainly an option to consider for main page, as at least links to complete info, but I'd like keep main page simple (it's easier then to locate desired information). If we would manage to squeeze it all or some more on main page in reasonably readable way, so be it, but lucidity is the only measure for main page. >> news.firebirdsql.org >> News-style pages for each sub-project or group, with aggregation on main >> page of this sub-site. > > As mentioned above, I'd prefer to see the aggregation on the main page > of the site. We don't seem to have so many news to split them between > sub-projects, so I think a dedicated sub-site is an overkill for the > time being... Well, the idea is to have an aggregating news engine there, where we can easily add new news sources (local or remote via RSS feeds) with automatic history archive. You can browse aggregated main page or individual news sources. These sources could be news tracks from sub-projects, individuals (aka blogs), foundation, topic focused (like releases, outages) etc. With RSS feeds available for each. It would be possible to put any selection of news to nay page within the site if necessary. >> developers.firebridsql.org >> Sub-site dedicated to developers. Each sub-project has it's own space here. > > Maybe just define core.fbsql.org, jaybird.fbsql.org, etc? I'm expecting > every sub-site to have separate layouts (optimized for its purposes), > while still sharing the design concept with other sub-sites and the home > page. Right now we have quite a lot of differences between sub-project > pages, so they don't seem fitting each other well, this is why I think > that probably separate development sub-sites would suit us better. Well, the sub-sites were meant to be just apache configuration thing that would make bookmarking and direct jumps using URL box of the browser more easy. There is nothing that would stop anybody to use different design, layouts etc. between dev. sub-sites accessible via url developer.firevirdsql.org/<subprojectname>. And as we have to be consistent and we have a lot of sub-projects (with potentially more in future), I guess we'll end with too much sub-domains which would beat their purpose. best regards Pavel Cisar IBPhoenix |