On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Peter Flodin wrote:
> > On 21/12/05, Graham Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > So Christoph is quite right, a site map should be generated (manually)
> > of the major categories with at least the first level of child
> > categories. This would certainly go a long way to helping navigation
> > on the site which i think is not great at the moment. I'll do what i
> > can over the next 2 weeks of holidays ( between eating and drinking
> > too much
> > ;) to sort any uncategorized pages. Theres around 150 or so of these
> > at the moment so its not *too bad* ;)
>
> Please help to improve the http://www.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE:Browse page,
> which is exactly the page you are talking about, modelled on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Browse, and is actually linked to
> on the Documentation page as "Browse Articles by Category".
>
> But I don't think Categorization will be the total solution. Wikipedia
> is great, but it is an Encylopedia. Opensuse.org is the site of a
> distro, we need more structure.
Even if it's not the final solution, categorization makes a lot of sense
in my opinion.
> There were discussions on the opensuse-wiki list a couple of months ago
> now, they basically came to the conclusion that we need to update the
> navigation bars side and top, to reduce the level of pages required to
> navigate the site. And I think we need to modify the front page, as it
> is currently underutilised in providing useful information and
> navigation. Both these tasks require staff. Maybe we should run a
> design-the-front-page competition.
That sounds like a great idea to me! Is there anybody out there who feels
like taking part? (Maybe we could even offer a reward -- I'll figure that
out tomorrow.)
Regards
Christoph
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