Mike Noyes wrote: > 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
Ahh yes. History be good. >> 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 [snip] Ok, I'm gonna snip you there and try to explain it in an attempt to make it easier to consider: 1) Openssl.org has a certain graphical way of doing things that's better. 2) I'm not saying change the tree structure to theirs so that we have an "About" with General Contacts Credits ... No. What I'm saying is keep whatever tree structure makes you happy withing reason. Just change the graphical presentation and the unfolding behavior to the openssl way. I can describe how openssl.org does things. The top graphic with OpenSSL in big characters never chages. The left column graphic with the main menu items never changes. That works so well for me. Do you see what I mean? I'll stop now to keep this short and to the point. So I skipped your concerns not out of disregard, but rather because I need to be sure you get my point about style. Best, Matt > 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. _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
