Nice! We're actually planning to migrate the website to another provider. Would you be interested in continuing this work?
Ian. On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Cl?ment <cvollet at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > about three weeks ago I had a HCI webproject to do. > The subject was : improve an existant website (well, I'm not 100% sure that it > was the subject, but that what we've done) > > I convinced the three other people who worked with me to work on the freenet > website. It was a small project though (3 hours with a teacher in the room, + > 3 hours max of personal time), so we didn't go far. > > But maybe some of what we've done could be usefull for the project. > > Here is the copy/paste of what we've done : > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Objective of the new website: > - To improve the existing navigation controls of freenetproject.org > - To improve it's structural presentation of information on home page > > > Aim of the web-site: > - to present the software product and provide support > - documentation and tools to users and developers to allow them to use and > contribute to the software. > > Problems: > The problems of current website http://freenetproject.org : > - irrelevant information for homepage: mainly financial status, we don't know > what freenet is > - too many items in left navigation menu and not really well structured > - documentation section where subsections do not have direct hyperlinks - its > confusing > > Solutions we proposed: > - simpler horizontal navigation bar with restructured tree > - new menu tree proposition: > > ? ? ? ?Home -- what is freenet a bit modified page > > ? ? ? ?About freenet: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?what is freenet > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?philosophy > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?contributors > > ? ? ? ?Downloads: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?freenet > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?tools > > ? ? ? ?Contribute: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?papers -- research and stuff > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?developer > > ? ? ? ?Donations > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?donate > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?sponsors > > ? ? ? ?Support & feedback > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?help --documentation and stuff > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?faq --move out from help section > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?mailing lists > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?suggestions > > - restructuralization of documentation page > - homepage holds only basic information presenting projects aim and latest > news > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Of course, it's a very early draft, so it needs to be discussed. > > You'll find attached the files we produced. Please keep in mind it that the > aim > of the HCI project wasn't to have a pretty site, but a functionnal one (so, > it's not ugly, but it's not pretty either). > > Some files are missing, we mainly focused on the navigation and the structure > of the site. It's not very important though, since the contents are exactly > the same that already are on the current site. > > Oh, and I almost forgot : we should keep the financial status on the homepage, > between the download link and the news (we got rid of it because we found on > the moment it wasn't relevant, but in fact, it's interesting to know about the > financial health of a project). > > Last thing : I still don't have my grade for this project, so I don't know if > it's good job or not ;) > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: ian at uprizer.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 Fax: +1 512 276 6674
