Jason van Zyl wrote:
Dealing with umbrella sites is definitely something that people want some advice on how to do best. An umbrella page is really an aggregation of all information contained within all the subprojects. So in this case maybe we need a different kind of page. Possibly having a page with a reference to all the projects contained within instead of trying to stuff them all in the navigation.
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Come up with a clean page with a nicely formatted table of all the projects contained within, possibly with a short summary (taken from the short description) and a pointer to the subproject page.
A very BIG +1.
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Looking at the first page of the commons-math site, I am immediately
presented with a list of things: there is no summary of what the project
is or does which. Instead of having a link to "About Math" it should
tell you right there on the first page and the user guide be a hot item
in the first set of navigations.
A Point well taken, I think that in the main index.html page for Math we should give a more solid overview of the project and provide some important links.
I also think it would be wise to support generation of a "Site Map" (I may be ignorant and this actually already exists?) Especially something that can easily be "aggregated" into the umbrella project.
-Mark
-- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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