Clearly this is your site and you can do with it as you like, but I'm not happy
with including other scales. There is plenty of information in the major
magazines, web sites, special interest groups, etc. on all the other scales.
The idea was to make a site attractive to those looking for S scale
information, not to yet again compete with all the noise generated by the other
scales. If you are correct in your assessment of participation by the other
scales, the S part will be quickly lost in a mountain of information just as it
is now. I have no intention of belittling you efforts. I simply want to state
my opinion this one time.
Ed Kozlowsky
Vivamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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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
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