I've noticed a number of people mailing the general lists for questions about topics like OpenGrok that have specific lists.
I'm starting to wonder if our website design isn't confusing to them. (And a couple comments from people I've corrected seem to confirm this.) Go to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/ Pretend you've never been to this site before, know nothing about it, and want to ask a question about OpenGrok, where would you go? There's a large Discussions link on top that is very eye-catching, and a small Discussions link in the side bar mixed in with all the other text that's hard to spot. Even if you noticed there were two links, how would you know what the difference was? Why wouldn't you click the discussions link on top, and expect the help forum link there would be the best place to ask for help? Would you scroll down through the hundreds of lists with obscure and confusing names to find there was one named opengrok-discuss or would you just stop at the help forum? Is there someway to make it more clear that the top icon bar is the site-wide list, and the less eye catching left nav bar is the more important to use when on a project/community page? Or should the icon bar just be removed from project/community pages? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list website-discuss@opensolaris.org
