Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of portal page that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and to

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of portal page that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and to

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of "portal page" that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh... what do you mean in the middle? I've created a draft page, and put a copy of the page in a section there under the heading Version 1 - as per Rich's suggestion in the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome-Draft Christian,

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh... what do you mean in the middle? I've created a draft page, and put a copy of the page in a section there under the heading Version 1 - as per Rich's suggestion in the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome-Draft Christian,

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh... what do you mean "in the middle"? I've created a draft page, and put a copy of the page in a section there under the heading Version 1 - as per Rich's suggestion in the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome-Draft

Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the middle and emphasize the menus. There can be a

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should

Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the middle and emphasize the menus. There can be a

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should

Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the middle and emphasize the menus. There can be a

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should