On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I am finally DONE with the huge migration/update to >>>> >>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/ >>>> >>>> I saved one of the biggest to last yesterday...marketing. >>>> >>>> The total size of this repository is: 8.2G >>>> >>> >>> Wow. This is so cool. Thanks. >>> >>> What tasks remain before we can go live with this as the new >>> openoffice.org website? Is there a list on the wiki someplace? >>> >>> In other words, where can people help? >> >> On Sunday I plan to adjust the wrapping and build the table of subdomain >> re-wraps. >> >> I'll then negotiate the publish build with Infrastructure. It will hit the >> website svn hard. >> >> One thing I wanted to do was add a set of navigation buttons to the ooo-site >> framework. >> > > Are you talking about the "I want to...." links on the current > www.openoffice.org homepage? Or a navigator that would be on all > pages? Trying to get a uniform nav look and feel will be hard, since > there are so many links between the various sites, especially between > the static site and the wiki pages. Unless we can get the nav uniform > across that boundary it may be awkward. But if we can get it uniform > it would certainly be nice.
A row of buttons on the right just above the content for the website - for now the same on all platforms, but ideally special for each N-L > >> I was thinking of something like: >> >> - Download > > +1 > >> - Support > > +1 > >> - Bugzilla > > This will be meaningless to 99.99% of our users. But maybe could call > it "Report a Bug". Of course, BZ itself is too complicated for most > users. - Report Bugs > >> - Wiki > > Is wiki really a destination, something that users are looking for? I > think of it more like a technology we use for delivering content. So > maybe we could highlight a link to a specific wiki area, like "FAQs". > But I don't know why a user would be searching generically for the > wiki. - FAQs Also - - Forums > >> - Apache Project. >> - N-L pop-up > > What would we be popping up? A list of N-Ls - it should be from a file - it can start with ISO codes, but having it in the language in UTF-8 with the ISO code would be ideal. > >> > > Maybe also "Extensions" and "Templates" Maybe, but now we might have too many buttons. I think we want no more than seven. Regards, Dave > >> The project could discuss what the buttons should be and how they are named. >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >> >>> >>> -Rob >>> >>>> so you need to be aware of this as well as lengthy checkout times the >>>> first time around. >>>> >>>> I may have some minor clean-up on DOS line ending files that didn't get >>>> committed the first time through, but I anticipate this will be less than >>>> about 20 commits. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your understanding if you were trying to do checkouts this past >>>> week or so. >>>> >>>> PLEASE let me know if you run into any lock out or other file omission >>>> problems with any areas (I think I took care of the N-L areas a few weeks >>>> ago but I may have overlooked some), I will take care of this. >>>> >>>> This DOES NOT include the legacy OpenOffice.org "incubator" sites. >>>> >>>> Now on to other things. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> MzK >>>> >>>> "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged >>>> by the way its animals are treated." >>>> -- Mohandas Gandhi >>
