On Monday 01 June 2009 01:24:24 Cl?ment 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 ;)
> 
Is there any chance of reconstructing the logo without the CamelCase? It's 
always been Freenet not FreeNet.
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