Probably worth moving forward on this? Submenus are important, we have a lot of 
content and it's not well organised. And arguably the theme is better, and 
arguably even if it isn't better it's a change, and is no worse...

On Monday 01 June 2009 01:24:24 Clément wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> about three weeks ago I had a HCI webproject to do. 
> The subject was : improve an existant website (well, I'm not 100% sure that 
> it 
> was the subject, but that what we've done)
> 
> I convinced the three other people who worked with me to work on the freenet 
> website. It was a small project though (3 hours with a teacher in the room, + 
> 3 hours max of personal time), so we didn't go far.
> 
> But maybe some of what we've done could be usefull for the project.
> 
> Here is the copy/paste of what we've done :

I like the submenus. I think that is fairly universal. New layout is fine. I am 
not convinced about the way the site has been split up however. More comment 
below...
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Objective of the new website: 
> - To improve the existing navigation controls of freenetproject.org
> - To improve it's structural presentation of information on home page
> 
> 
> Aim of the web-site:
> - to present the software product and provide support
> - documentation and tools to users and developers to allow them to use and 
> contribute to the software.
> 
> Problems:
> The problems of current website http://freenetproject.org :
> - irrelevant information for homepage: mainly financial status, we don't know 
> what freenet is
> - too many items in left navigation menu and not really well structured
> - documentation section where subsections do not have direct hyperlinks - its 
> confusing
> 
> Solutions we proposed:
> - simpler horizontal navigation bar with restructured tree
> - new menu tree proposition:
> 
>         Home -- what is freenet a bit modified page

This page looks good IMHO.
> 
>         About freenet:
>                 what is freenet
>                 philosophy
>                 contributors
> 
>         Downloads:
>                 freenet
>                 tools

Tools are unofficial and unsupported. Maybe download should be under home?
> 
>         Contribute:
>                 papers -- research and stuff
>                 developer

I'm not convinced papers belong under Contribute.
> 
>         Donations
>                 donate
>                 sponsors

Ok. But shouldn't both be under Contribute?
> 
>         Support & feedback
>                 help --documentation and stuff
>                 faq --move out from help section
>                 mailing lists
>                 suggestions

What about the wiki? Shouldn't it be on the same level as the uservoice tracker?

How about:

Home
- Home
- What is Freenet?
- Download Freenet

About:
- Philosophy
- Papers
- People

Contribute:
- Developer page
- Donate
- Sponsors

Help:
- Docs
- FAQ
- Mailing lists
- Suggestions
- Wiki

Too many links? Depends on the theme I guess...

Actually, I'm not convinced we want to keep the documentation pages:
- Install only applies to the java installer, needs some typo fixes and a new 
final screenshot, and some guidance on the post-install wizard.
- Connect: needs updating but is basically acceptable.
- Content: dunno, isn't this more About? but i'm not sure we want to move it 
there...
- Understand: maybe keep
- Freemail: probably keep, is sort of official
- Frost: dunno, we don't ship it, and we don't review it, but at the moment we 
recommend it ...
- jSite: keep
- Thaw: see Frost
- FAQ: should be at a higher level
- Wiki: should be at a higher level

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