Hi Kay, >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/Content > > I added a few comments to this one. Basically, my suggestions call for > using existing pages/areas we already have and retooling them a bit. > I'll be more than happy to assist in this endeavor.
It can definitely be only retooling, but we need to start retooling some day ;) I suggest starting on this right now. And to me the wiki seems like the ideal platform for creating content not being bothered with setting up a tunnel, updating cvs, editing html, saving, committing... etc. Mainly this retooling entails moving from e.g. books sorted by date to books sorted by type. The latter I tried to start here, but this weekend not everything went as planned, so I lacked time to finish it: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/Content/help/books/print Maybe this list should even include the free PDF books (the difference is already fading with the inclusion of printing on demand books). We should create the pages for the user, and that also includes making choices for the user (which content to put first). Sorting based on date is, for example, really objective, but it doesn't favour one publication over the other based on quality and usefulness. > The one I see as particularly problematic is the "I Want to do more with > OpenOffice" since the subjects you have here are not currently under one > umbrella, so this one would likely involve a new page unless you wanted > to handle it in css with a drop down to the respective areas--templates, > extensions, etc. It could be a simple follow up page, with some nice graphics linking to the general subpages. > And, a parting comment. I see in the new design we have a "News" tab, > but...well...will people actually go there much? I think we should leave > the tab but if at all possible, maybe do *something* on the home page to > highlight at least ONE news item? (No good ideas here without making the > overall design "tacky"). Before including news on the main page, one should ask the simple question: why? IMHO, the vast majority, and this is the group we are designing for, is not that interested in news primarily. And if they are interested in news, they can click the news tab, still quite accessible. If there is really important news, we can use the marketing box as designed by Randy for this as well. That said, a page including all news items needs to be created. Actually I was thinking about a similiar solution as used at planet marketing: http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/ I don't know exactly how it works yet... but the thing is that it is RSS based, people interested in keeping constant updates on OOo, can subscribe to the news feed. Secondly, this page needs much less manual updating, as happens currently manually adding links to external pages. It can simply rely on a recombination of RSS feeds from selected sources (e.g. the ones that are now highlighted as 'Always' news resources) g., Maarten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
