From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2010-02-21 07:03:17
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2010/2/20 Jason Simanek <jsi...@gm...>: > Hello Gramps, > > I'm still plugging along on this new introduction site. So far, so good. > I spent a few hours on the Blog section the other night. I think it > looks pretty good. Up next is the challenge of making the other 'static' > pages look nice while at the same time making it easy to isolate the > text for translation. > > http://gramps-project.org/introduction-WP/ > > While reviewing the many problems that need to be solved for this new > site to work well I have come across a few that I feel need to be > considered by you all: > > Main Navigation > I've switched out the word 'Community' for 'Documentation' to link to > the original Wiki site. To me this word is more helpful to people new to > Gramps and is more specific to the actual function of the Wiki site. > Maybe there should be other links in this site's main nav that link to > things more specific to documentation, bug tracking, > development/contribution? Ok for documentation. There is one link that is very important in my book: Contact. People need a big link on how to contact us. On this page should be: * what mailing addresses to mail for info/devel/genea/chat, where to report a bug, how to chat, .... If that is present, the other things you suggest can be part of the documentation page. > > Gramps Releases > I think this new WordPress site would be much better suited to > announcing version releases of Gramps and other news that is meant to be > distributed. I think we could even set up a special RSS feed just for > announcements like that. The current RSS feed on the Wiki is almost > useless since there is an entry on it for every single little change to > the Wiki. Well, it might be useful to someone monitoring the Wiki for > changes, but it isn't helpful to folks that just want to be updated > about new versions of Gramps. You do not have a news section, while the wiki has a news section. If we want to announce releases this way, some news section would be needed, I leave it up to you to decide what to do. The news on the wiki is fine for me. Obviously, we only need one place with news. What do you plan to put behind the 'Learn more about Gramps' button? > Favicon > I tried to make the existing favicon (icon shown next to URL in browser) > have a transparent background, but the details are so small that it > isn't very well suited to such a low resolution. I have designed a more > simple 'tree' favicon with just 3 nodes instead of 7. Let me know what > you think. Ok. For me on firefox the left node looks a bit orange/red. The right nodes have the correct beige color. > Blog Categories: GRAMPS > Is it just me or is having a blog about Gramps at gramps-project.org > mean that all of the posts are more or less about Gramps? If that's the > case, I move to delete the 'GRAMPS' category from this new site. To me > it's a redundant category. ok Benny > > ---- > > That's all for now. I'll be working on this site for the next 4 hours or > so, so you might see some odd things here and there. > > -Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > |