Re: [Firebird-website] A few thoughts about (new) site structure, and some good news...

[Kurt F. <fed...@ya...>]

Hi, Carlos.

I offered to help with this in the past.  While I don't have time to design, I am fairly proficient at implementation and would be happy offer what time I can afford to help implement.

I understand the need to avoid having "too many cooks".

 
Kurt.
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Carlos H. Cantu <li...@wa...>
> To: Firebird Project Web Team <fir...@li...>
> Sent: Thu, November 19, 2009 11:19:31 AM
> Subject: [Firebird-website] A few thoughts about (new) site structure, and some good news...
> 
> Afair, the latest discussion about new web design (when Mariu's friend sent
> some proposals) stopped because we didn't have a desired site
> structure to send to him. So, below is my draft, just to give a start,
> about how I think content can be structured. Probably it is not
> complete or perfect, but with a starting point, it is easier to move forward.
> 
> Main page contents
> - Official Project news
> - Link to FirebirdNews
> - Link to Firebird FAQ
> - Next conferences/events
> - Donation link
> - Direct link to latest stable release
> 
> 1. About (project description - not too long - with links to history, etc)
> 1.1 Sponsors list
> 1.2 Members
> 
> 2.Downloads
> 2.1 Firebird Binaries
> 2.1.1 FB 3.0.x
> 2.1.2 FB 2.5.x
> 2.1.3 FB 2.1.x
> 2.1.4 FB 2.0.x
> 2.1.5 FB 1.5.x
> 2.1.6 FB 1.0.x
> 2.2 Side Projects (ODBC, Drivers, FlameRobin, etc)
> 2.3 Source Code
> 2.4 Logos and images
> 
> 3.Documentation
> 3.1 Only Official Firebird Project docs 
> 3.2 Link to Firebird FAQ
> 3.3 Firebird License
> 3.4 Actual Roadmap
> 
> 4.Support
> 4.1 Discussion lists
> 4.1.1 International (english language)
> 4.1.2 Regional (by country/language)
> 4.2 Firebird related sites and portals
> 4.2.1 Global (english language)
> 4.2.2 Regional sites (by coutry/language)
> 4.3 Link to Tracker
> 
> 5. Foundation (links direct to foundation site)
> 
> 6. Contact
> 
> 7. Search (this means, global search for the site contents - we can
>    use even Google for this)
> 
> 
> My view is that the main (top) menu should not have subitems. Pages
> can have sidebar menus/links or even sub-sections. We need to avoid
> too much levels = people needs to find what they want with maximum of
> 3 clicks (even less, if possible).
> 
> Project needs to re-think and drop some things, like the CONNECT!, Job
> board, etc. I know some of you can measure the pages access
> statistics, so probably you can determine what should be dropped
> better than me.
> 
> Also, I have a GOOD NEWS: IBSurgeon is willing to donate USD 1.5K to
> the website project redesign. As we already have some amount
> collected, for the first time, seems that money is not the problem for
> a task to be done.
> 
> Imho, the project needs to set up a really small group of 2 or 3
> people, to move this task forward. If we have 100 people giving their
> opinion about everything, we will end up having endless discussions
> and stay stuck. This group would have *total* power to do anything
> they want (regarding the website, of course). They can ask "outside"
> opinions about designs proposals or anything else, but only if they
> want to.
> 
> []s
> Carlos H. Cantu
> www.FireBase.com.br - www.firebirdnews.org
> www.warmboot.com.br - blog.firebase.com.br
> 
> 
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