On 19 Jun 06, at 12:37 AM 19 Jun 06, Brett Porter wrote:
John Casey wrote:
Hi everyone,
I know we've talked about this quite a bit already. Actually, I'm
having
trouble finding the past threads on this topic in my email...can
someone who
knows please link them in?
btw:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/200603.mbox/%
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However, I'm reading through them and going to reincoporate any
additional thoughts into the current discussions (as I should have
done *ages* ago).
A lot of the folks here and users had ideas on how to make the site
better so how about we solicit for a users' favourite site with
respect to usability. The other thing that might be interested is let
folks who had ideas make some sample sites as it can often be hard to
visualize what someone is talking about. A few minutes whipping up a
new site.xml would give us lots of ideas.
Most people seems to be concerned with easy navigation and that is
something simple we can do before we start changing the structure of
the content. I think simply reorganizing the content itself would be
an easy first step. Having a few categories/trails seems to be a
popular option so the big long list could just be categorized first
and a navigation made.
This should be done iteratively and let users guide it's final form
with feed back instead of a grandiose plan to restructure everything
everything. So I think something very simple and tenable is:
1. Ask users for favorite sites, good examples of quality navigation
and ease of use.
2. Ask users to help show us what they want by making a site.xml and
shows groupings they would find useful.
3. Do something really simple like categorize/trailize the existing
content and make the first iteration of navigation improvements.
While we're gathering feedback folks can think about how to improve
the site further, change the structure of content, and create tools
that might help. Shoot for short term changes that can be collected
and published so users can browse around and we find what works as we
go.
Jason.
- Brett
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