At 2002-03-19 18:36 -0800, Matt Schalit wrote:
>Mike Noyes wrote:
>>Everyone,
>>It was recently mentioned to me, that I may not have been eating enough 
>>of my own dog food lately. To rectify this situation, I'm soliciting 
>>ideas for streamlining our web site navigation.
>
>Heh heh.  You mentioned that to us at the show.

Matt,
Yes, but I gave credit for the original message to the wrong person. Mike 
Sensney was the first to mention the phrase, and he even provided a link to 
an article.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02852.html


>About the organization.  If anyone's interested, I think
>the perfect example of how to lay out an opensource site
>is right here:
>
>        http://www.openssl.org/
>
>Navigate your way around there and see what I mean.

The menu they have looks like:

Title
FAQ  --> Redirect to Support section
About
    General
    Contacts
    Credits
News
    Newsflash
    State
    Announce
    ChangeLog
    Internet
Documents
    Index
    openssl(1)
    ssl(3)
    crypto(3)
    HOWTO
Source
    Tarballs
    Repository
    Mirror
    CVSweb
Contribution
    Misc
Support
    Mailing Lists
    FAQ
Related
    OpenSSL/SSLeay
    SSL/TLS
    Toolkits
    Applications
    Misc

>I think it has some big advantages compared to our site.

It may, but I think our main navigation problem is the unintegrated local 
content links. They drop people into a completely different environment, 
and it confuses them. Often they can't find their way back to the main 
page. :-(

It may be a good idea to make our Packages page a sub menu of Downloads. 
Our Mailing Lists page might be more appropriate as a sub menu of Support. 
Our Announcement and Submit News pages might look better as sub menu items 
under a new News page. The Web Links title may need to change to Related 
Sites, or something similar.

>Hopefully it wouldn't require any major rewrites.

If you're talking about including the sub menus in the pages themselves, I 
don't think we can do that with phpWebSite.

Thanks for the feedback Matt.

--
Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
http://leaf-project.org/


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