Earlier today I wrote:
In about an hour -- I hope :-) -- I'm going to post a mock-up of what the Derby site would look like with more tabs in response to two posts last week.
(1) Kevin Foster posted this to derby-user:
I understand that with the newer version of Forrest being used for the Derby pages, it would be possible to add more tabs across the top without impacting the layout of the content below the tabs.
If that's true, what do people think of the idea of changing the set of tabs to the following:
Home Community Manuals Papers Integration
I think that's there enough content and usefulness on Community and Integration to make them tabs in their own right.
(2) Dan Debrunner posted this to derby-dev:
So Dan was reacting to the forrest 0.6 collapsible menus. Forrest 0.6 doesn't support turning that feature off, though we could modify the forrest skin to get the behavior we want. --I don't much like the idea of modifying the skin ourselves because I'd rather that it be easy for people to check the derby web site out of svn, download forrest, and build the site with the defaults. But if anyone feels strongly about modifying the skin, speak up!Is it possible to get the > Community tab to be expanded on the home page as well as the > Derby tab?
At any rate, Kevin's suggestion would be a way to address Dan's point.
Forrest 0.6 also has an easy sub-tab feature. I want to show what tabs and subtabs look like, then ask people for feedback on how they want the web site to be organized.
I set up a skeletal test site here that doesn't have the bulk of the derby web site:
http://incubator.apache.org/derby/DerbyTest/
It shows a couple options:
(1) Splits the Community and Integration categories into two tabs
(2) Adds two subtabs to the Papers tab. I don't have this working quite right yet; when you click on one of the subtabs, it loses the focus of the Papers tab.
As a minor note, I moved the "built with Apache Forrest image" down to the footer. For reasons I haven't figured out yet, it displays on some pages and not others and I found that distracting.
Comments? Knowing what we can easily do, how would you like the site organized?
-jean
