Neat! I like this new grouping arrangement so far. Just a tiny issue that I came across when poking around. I see that the Planet Evergreen version of the menu points to some incorrect addresses (looks like some are set to "planet.evergreen-ils.org" instead of just "evergreen-ils.org")
-- Ben On 11/17/2010 10:27 PM, Dan Scott wrote: > Hey folks: > > A few days back I mentioned the events calendar that Jason and I got > going at http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar (everybody's using it now, > right?). At the time, I mentioned something about adding the calendar > to the menu in a more prominent way, by coalescing some of the related > menu entries together in a drop-down menu format. > > So, as of a few minutes ago, I've done that. You'll note the new > "Communicate" entry, which groups the "Mailing list", "Chat", > "Calendar", "Official blog", and "Community blogs" entries together. > The top-level "Communicate" entry itself links to a new page that > provides the same links with a little more context; good for both > search indexes and for providing the same amount of access to the > entries in the drop-down menu for people using screen readers or > browsers with JavaScript turned off. (You might need to reload the > page to get the right results if your browser has cached the old CSS). > > I also created a "Contribute" entry. The top level links to our > "Contributing" document that discusses how to, well, contribute to the > community (focusing on documentation, bug reports, and code at the > moment, but it could be more). I wanted to add a "Join a committee or > working group" link under that heading, but we don't have a single > wiki page that lists all of the Evergreen interest groups, working > groups, and committees currently that I can link to. Seems like > something that needs to be created - any volunteers? > > Anyway, the menu itself is just a simple nested unordered list with a > bit of CSS and JavaScript. I took some heat in IRC for using > JavaScript at all, but a) it works (tested with Chromium, Firefox, and > IE) and b) the fall-back for non-JavaScript browsers works enough to > make me comfortable. That said, some people have said they'll try to > provide a CSS-only implementation, and I'll be happy to switch to that > if patches come along (web site is all stored in Subversion in > svn://svn.open-ils.org/ILS-Contrib/evergreen-ils.org for anyone > interested in contributing). > > To be honest, the technology interests me much less than the grouping > and terminology of the menu headings. Are we emphasizing the right > things at the top level, and are we providing access to the right > things underneath those headings - and if not, is it because we just > don't have the right content, or because we've missed it entirely? > > Other candidates for busting out into submenus are the Documentation > link (to provide direct links to the official docs, the wiki, and the > "How to contribute" document if we feel like repeating it?), the FAQs > (to link directly to each of the current FAQs - or move FAQs under > Documentation?), and the About Us (link to Roadmap, that mythical list > of all committees/interest/working groups). > > Dan > -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
