Re: [Tm4j-developers] New TM4J web site design proposal [Long]

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

At 00:25 27/02/2002 +0100, Florian G. Haas wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>as I'm sure most of you are aware, we (Thomas Bauer, to a major extent, and
>Florian Haas, to a minor one) have put some thought into a possible
>re-design of the TM4J project web site. We have completed some design=
 drafts
>and would greatly appreciate your comments.
>
>OK, so we (plus Kal) thought about making the project web site design much
>more Topic-Map-ish, so we could eventually use it for a Velocity- or
>Cocoon-centered application. What we have for now are Photoshop dummies
>(we're working on HTML versions), and please feel free to look at them at
>http://tm4j.org/tmp/HP_DESIGN_9_WEB.JPG and
>http://tm4j.org/tmp/HP_DESIGN_9FLORIAN_WEB.JPG (just two versions of the
>same thing with different "topics"), and let us hear your thoughts.
>Christoph Fr=F6hlich has already provided some very valuable feedback in an
>E-Mail to Kal, which we've attached to this message. Christoph, if you're
>monitoring this list, we hope you don't mind our doing this. Please keep
>telling us stuff like this, it's really more than helpful.
>
>Some other issues that have already come up in informal discussion:
>* Keep the "newsticker"? Or is it just a confusing attention-catcher?
>* Keep the "search" box? It would certainly be nice to have a full-text
>topic map search (or even TMQL, or Tolog), but how would we implement it?

Adding a search with Tolog would be a great feature for the "second stage"=
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of the website (once we get it hosted on a machine that supports a servlet=
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environment). But for now, perhaps the search should just make use of some=
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third-party indexing (e.g. search the site with Google/Lycos) - of course,=
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this has the disadvantage that the results will end up taking people away=20
from the website. Does anyone have any experience of setting up search on a=
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SourceForge-hosted site ?

Cheers,

Kal