[my previous reply showed up blank.. dunno why, but I'll try again..]
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 08:45, Jon Lapham wrote: > I would like to propose a change to the www.gnucash.org web site > organization concerning the documentation. If people like this > proposal, I would be happy to make the changes myself. [..snipped..] > Advantages: > > 1) we clearly show what we think is the best documentation for people to > use. That is, the latest GnuCash documentation. > good :) > 2) We *still make available* all forms of documentation. No judgements, > every possible documentation concerning GnuCash will be available. > good. :) > 3) This approach is much more extensible, when GnuCash v1.10 comes out, > the documentation for v1.8 simply moves into the [other] link. Hell, if > we have any "older than 1.6 documentation", let's put that on the > [other] link too. > ya, I like this idea, but it would be clearer if you didn't group everything that isn't current and local as "other"-- perhaps "external guides", "tutorials", etc? > 4) Left hand column of the web site becomes simpler to navigate, less links. > right, but unnecessary clicking is required to find something other than "current documentation" if you put everything in the "other" section. > 5) We could put a "in development" link on the [other] page, where > documentation people could put their in development docs. Kind of like > what I am doing now with my own web site. > > Disadvantages: > > 1) Two clicks to get to documentation other than the current User Guide > and Help Manual. as long as it is three clicks or less, you are fine, IMHO. I like what the python folks have done with their doc page: <http://python.org/doc> regards, J -- || Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || Web: <http://zoidtechnologies.com/> || GPG: 1024D/35172A42 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
