Excellent work Jason. I think we can replace links in the header bar by a combobox for add multiple links without obtain an horizontal scrolling.
Emmanuel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: Maven Site Usability > Howdy, > > Prompted by Chris Stevenson Bob and I have started playing around with > the Maven generated site in order to make it easier to navigate and more > useful. Currenlty the book I'm working with is Homepage Usability by > Jakob Nielsen: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/073571102X/qid=1071679585/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5601731-6202321?v=glance&s=books > > There are 113 recommendations so I'm slowly working through them to see > what makes sense and what can be applied to the Maven generated site. > > As a simple start we've tried to make the site look better and not be so > much a punch in the face when you first see it. Of course, this is > purely subjective but we'll refine the design as we go. > > On the main Maven site now you'll notice that there is a "Quick Links" > section. Currently I have this hardcoded into Maven's navigation.xml but > it is something that I would like to generate for the standard site. I > put a few entries there but suggestions for other hot items, like, > Javadoc, FAQs are welcome. We'll take the most popular suggestions and > add them to the "Quick Links" section or whatever it ends up being > named. > > I've also started going through some of the reports and the first one I > fixed was the dependencies report which Norbert pointed out as being too > verbose. I agree so I changed the report back to its original terse > format. > > I'll be going through the rest of the reports, comparing with some books > I picked up but user feed back here is most important. I'm going to do a > little more tweaking then I'm going to release the plugin. Hopefully > people can try deploying their own sites and asking their users what > they feel is important. I think in a couple weeks with some good > feedback we can make some vast improvements to the standard generated > site. I also have only looked at the site using Mozilla/Linux so there > very well might be some problems with other platforms. Please just pop a > note in JIRA if you see something that looks horrible. > > Take a peek at the work in progress: > > http://maven.apache.org/ > > -- > jvz. > > Jason van Zyl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tambora.zenplex.org > > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational > and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. > > -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
