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 : > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > About freenet: > what is freenet > philosophy > contributors > > Downloads: > freenet > tools > > Contribute: > papers -- research and stuff > developer > > Donations > donate > sponsors > > Support & feedback > help --documentation and stuff > faq --move out from help section > mailing lists > suggestions > > - restructuralization of documentation page > - homepage holds only basic information presenting projects aim and latest > news > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Of course, it's a very early draft, so it needs to be discussed. > > You'll find attached the files we produced. Please keep in mind it that the > aim > of the HCI project wasn't to have a pretty site, but a functionnal one (so, > it's not ugly, but it's not pretty either). > > Some files are missing, we mainly focused on the navigation and the structure > of the site. It's not very important though, since the contents are exactly > the same that already are on the current site. > > Oh, and I almost forgot : we should keep the financial status on the > homepage, > between the download link and the news (we got rid of it because we found on > the moment it wasn't relevant, but in fact, it's interesting to know about > the > financial health of a project). > > Last thing : I still don't have my grade for this project, so I don't know if > it's good job or not ;) > I have done the first phase of deploying this, after discussions with Ian. We use the new background and the new logo, but we waste a lot of space on the top "line" with the banner, and we don't use the horizontal menu yet as we need to implement the sub-menus. Also I have rewritten the What is Freenet? page with some input from Ian.
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