Marshall Schor wrote: > Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Marshall Schor wrote: >> >>> I've updated the re-do of the website, as follows: >>> >>> 1) moved the "famous paragraph" up to the top on the first page (this >>> is actually several paragraphs...) >>> 2) Made the new picture on the first page float to the right, with text >>> on the left. >>> 3) changed the left-side nav bar to follow Adam's suggestions, including >>> adding back the "home" link (the other home links are still there). >>> 4) added a quick link to the user-list-forum and dev-list-forum - so you >>> get there in one click. >>> >> Minor nit: those links only seem useful if you already know what they >> are, no? > Yes. I hope that people "discover" them and then find them useful. > I'll add a note about these to the info page you get to when you click > on the "forums" link, to make this slightly more likely :-). >> Generally, I'm always surprised by navigation bar links that >> take me out of the page I'm visiting. That's contrary to conventions. >> We have more of those, like the Wiki link (and formerly the Jira link; >> what happened to that?). >> > Jira link is still there, but was renamed to something less buzzy - > Issues and Tracking. How about if we rename the link to be something > like "Issues & Tracking - Jira"?
No, that's ok. I just missed it because I knew it was called Jira before; your name is better. I'd call it "Issue tracker" myself, but that's not a strong preference. > > Should we try decorating these go-off-site (did you mean off site, or > off page?) links to indicate they go off site? Whatever you want to call it. When I click a navigation link, my expectation is that I'll still have the same navigation bar afterwards, with only the contents on the right changed. But I'm ok with the way it is, it just surprises me. If you have a real navigation bar and frames, you can show content that's from all over the place, so it's not really a question of going off-site. It's just a question of the UI experience. No special decoration for off-site links is necessary, imo. Just to be clear: I'm ok with your proposed changes. Overall, this will be a major improvement to our website. Thanks for doing the work. --Thilo > > -Marshall > >> Otherwise, +1. >> >> >>> I didn't update the privacy policy page - I know it talks about google >>> analytics, but it says "may" - I put this in partially because it was in >>> Jukka's version, and partially to cover ourselves if we, at some point >>> in the future, decide to add this capability to the site. >>> >>> Site is in the same place on people.a.o/~schor/website-candidate >>> >>> Feedback appreciated :-). -Marshall >>> >> >>
