From: Gour <li...@at...> - 2006-01-26 06:47:32
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On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 09:31 +0000, Axel Simon wrote: > - As with any proper (Windows) program, you should be able to reach the > whole content by going through the Tabs at the top. (Correct me if > that's wrong.) Exceptions could be outdated entries. Well, imho, one cannot expect such a thing on a dynamic web site. Proper (Windows) program should come with a decent user's manual, and here we have a web site... > - The Screenshot Tab shows me two pictures. The Screenshots in the > Archives section shows two different entries with one picture each. Now > I would have expected that the Screenshot tab contains a subset of the > Archives. My understanding is that 'Screenshot'-like pages are static pages (that's how they are anyway called in WP) which should be periodically updated with the new stuff, i.e. 'Screenshot' should have 'best of shots' (that's how it was envisioned at the beginning) with a link to the full-fledged gallery - that's what we have. My suggestion is to fix the page a bit providing some short caption with a link to the text which accompanies the shot... > - The Development Tab shows some meta information about development. > The entries about the new SVG or OpenGL stuff is not in here. Again, the > Development section in the archives shows me this stuff but not the meta > information from the Development tab. That's again 'fault' (is there one?) of the Category naming. I believe 'Development' page should be what it is now - quick info how one can help with the development, link to the mailing lists, repository etc. and should be kept up to date (like a recent migration to darcs should be reflected there).=20 Other posts do not have aynthing with it and should be placed under the dynamic post section. Those interested to help will join/browse dev-list, pull from the repo and become familiar what's going on. Same with othr 'static' pages, ie. 'Documenation' has to provide up-to-date documenation of the bindings, with apropriate links, and we have a nice link to FAQ. 'Download' page is also fully functional and does according to its name - link for downloading tarballs & links with the different packages available. 'Overview' serves as 'blurb' and it is, imho, pretty good one. So, I think that for a newcomer the site provides just the right info (with those suggestion(s) above applied) for a quick start. Besides that, we have a 'Recent posts' link, categorized archives, as well as Search bar (which is necessary in today's sites). So, my suggestion is just to rename/redefine names of Categories so that it is easier to quickly locate posts. That was/is setup we agreed on the beginning - static pages + posts with 'best of' screenshots gallery. If we want something more sophisticated, there are plenty of CMS packages (e.g. Drupal), but those are not so easy to setup/manage, so it depends on our needs. Sincerely, Gour |