At 00:42 16.04.2002, Bill Moseley wrote:
Stas has implemented a hierarchical way of limiting searches to parts of
the doc tree.  It's not done, but you can preview at:

  http://hank.org:5000/search/swish.cgi

- Also, I haven't really liked how the hover menu items work -- they seem
to fade away for the hover instead of standing out more.  On my site I
changed the menu hover to be just an underline.  What do people think?

I like it pretty much as it is right now, but yours is fine too. We can switch to it if you prefer.


- Along those lines, but a minor point, I think the selected menu item
doesn't need to be a link.

-1, same reason as Stas

- "What's mod_perl" seems like it should be "About mod_perl" or "What is
mod_perl".  Don't ask me why.

(AFAIK, I might have recommended What's mod_perl" instead of "About
mod_perl"!!).

I suggest "About mod_perl"

Is the plan to add more content to the "What's mod_perl" page?  I could try
to work on that, but the rest of my week is shot.

Well, I was hoping to add some content to the about/ section, making it a Docset and adding maybe "People behind mod_perl" and the proposed "Link to us", as well as maybe how we should pronounce it.


- Should the Documentation page give some hints what beginners should read
to get started?

+1. It's partly covered by the "Guide's overview", but we could make it a little shorter and add it at the beginning of the documentation part.


- I'm never sure which mod_perl archive to search.  Can the site offer
suggestions?  How about a form for each search engine right on that page?
Kind of a meta-search page.

-1: would probably take too much space.

(Maybe if the search/swish.cgi page returns no results we could do a meta
search on a few of the list archives?? -- kind of like, "Nope, not here.
Want to try Google?" kind of thing.

+1: Google and maybe one of the list archives yes.

- How about a cog graphic at the start of the paragraph on the main page.
Be nice to jazz up the home page a bit.  The first two paragraphs start out
lower case m (mod_perl) so maybe that's what it looks a little odd to me.

What do you mean? Like this?

+----+ mod_perl is great bla bla bla bla
|    | and we all love it bla bla bla bla
+----+ and Lincoln Stein loves it too bla bla
Furthermore, it gives many advantages........

Would look pretty cool, if that's what you meant. We can achieve it with <img style="float: left">.

- What's the thinking about writing in the third person?  The home page
says "you" a lot.  For example, instead of "You can use Perl to manage
Apache" one might say "Manage Apache with Perl" (although "manage" is a bit
vague in this example).

I don't think one way is better than another, but it's less formal saying
"you" and a bit more professional in the third person.

I don't think it matters that much. And it'll get pretty tiresome to write in the 3rd person all the time.


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Per Einar Ellefsen
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