I'm fiddling with the basic structure quite a bit right now. What I DON'T want to do is change the structure a year from now, when there will be thousands of pages. So I'm trying to figure out what will work for when the site is far larger than it is at present. If we have links off of the home page that do not follow a logical structure, we will be totally lost when there are ten thousand pages, and each and every one of them wants to link from the home page. It has to make simple sense all the way through, or it will quickly become unusable. What occurred to me was that, while this is starting out as a site for enthusiasts, if it blooms as I expect it to, it will become very popular, and you will get a lot of people on there who are complete newbies to model trains. So, the structure changes were to keep from getting thousands of questions about why the site does not make sense to someone not already in the hobby. I realize that some would prefer this be a "just for us" site, but the fact is that lots of people are going to have an interest in this, and they won't all have the expertise and experience represented in this group. No fear, though. You will see the S Scale section as a clickable link near the top. There is also no problem with changing this structure, if there is a more logical way of doing it. We can also move those sections around, if the sections themselves make sense, but the group would prefer them in a different order. I'm currently trying to load the table of contents on the home page, so you will see the tree structure, down to the level of the link to the S Scale section, immediately on the page. It works, but I'm still trying to get the site to default to it. (I've used Wikis before, but this is the first time I've set one up.) I think most on the list will be pleased with how it works, but I realize pleasing everyone is impossible. Here is how the home page is supposed to look, once I get the default assigned: http://www.modeltrainwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=ModelTrainWiki If the general responses on it are that you would prefer it to be ordered or structured differently, I'm open to that. All registered users have the rights to edit the structure. What you see on that home page is a table of contents that goes 2 levels down from the current page. I'm going to suggest that people use that in some of their pages, so you can also see the immediate sub-pages. I put one in the main S Scale page so you can see what I'm talking about, but it doesn't always load when you go down the tree. You can set the content depth as far down as you want. Here is what it is supposed to be: http://www.modeltrainwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=69 Brian
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Armstrong Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} TrainWiki home page Brian - This tree looks very useful. Why not use it instead of what's on the home page now? We can all get directly to the S-scale section and there is no need to fill in the other scales until those modelers get involved. There are common interests between scales - e.g. scenery and benchwork - but let's focus on S-scale particulars first. Please Art . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=252190/grpspId=1706533818/msgId= 46906/stime=1203453193/nc1=4507179/nc2=5028925/nc3=5170407> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
