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

[Jack P. <jac...@th...>]

I think that "web sites as topic maps" is a great idea.  In fact, I've been=
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thinking about ways to break the entire XML Topic Maps book into a topic=20
map itself on the web.  These images give me some ideas.  Thanks.

Jack

At 11:55 AM 2/27/2002 +0100, Gerd Mueller wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:25:04 +0100
>"Florian G. Haas" <f.g...@gm...> 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=20
> 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?
> >
> > Let's hope we get some good discussion going about this! :-)
>
>I like the overall design. It's frugal but very distinctive.
>
>But I agree with Christoph that the 'a topic map
>engine for java' line in the header is to much. Also the shadow of
>'topic maps 4 java' is to heavy. Perhaps you should drop the 'topic maps=20
>for java'
>from the TM4J logo and leave 'topic maps 4 java'.
>
>The navgation bar doesn't stand out enough. So you have to search for at=20
>first.
>I would suggest another background color for it and maybe we should also=20
>move it
>to left side.
>
>Also I think the newsticker isn't necessary if we have the 'news' box.
>
>I would also drop the 'optimized for explorer' hint. The site should work=
 for
>all browsers in the same quality.
>
>Best Regards,
>Gerd
>
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