On 12/04/08 05:50, Blake wrote: > That's a very legitimate point, Calum. I guess the root of the > problems is that .org provides a lot of information on a single, > rather daunting page. .com provides a lot of info well, but has a > nice tree-style navigation layout that starts with a simple home/root > page. Maybe we just need to get the .org site to follow those good > design principles a little more. I know that even for me, an > OpenSolaris user since the early days of the project, the .org site > can be a little thick when it comes to finding what I need. > > cheers, > Blake
Hi Blake, Thanks for this feedback. Any way you want to participate is welcome. OpenSolaris.org is ~6K pages of content (not including ARC case files) with 9 subsite zones, so your help is appreciated! The plan is to start migrating to new infrastructure fairly soon. That new infrastructure is Xwiki, so it lends itself toward a very wide architecture and arbitrarily deep. http://www.xwiki.org provides a nice playground, so if you want to prototype ideas and send them along, I'd be grateful for your help to explore a future architecture that is more sane for all types of users. As a start, I've put together an information architecture document that outlines one method of organizing the content: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/content/info_arch.pdf So, for example, we'd have just one menu at the top, something like the following opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/About opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Groups opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Downloads opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Documentation opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Messages Then, for example, the Groups page above would have some general content about OSOL Groups and pointers to spaces for each type, as follows opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/UserGroups opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Communities Then, the Projects page could have general content for Projects and sub-pages with details opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Creating opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Creating#instantiation opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Creating#bestpractices opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Contributing opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Contributing#patches opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/Contributing#translations opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/SourceControl opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/SourceControl#mercurial opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Projects/SourceControl#subversion At this level, for example, we can specify 'in page' navigation, so you can jump from the top of the SourceControl page down to the Mercurial section. And, we'd also be able to have several sections of 'panel' navigation, beyond the general menu that links back to About, Groups, Documentation, Downloads, and Messages. This is good, because we can share additional navigation panels across Projects without those panels appearing at the Main level. And readers can collapse the panels they don't use. Going further _across_ the rabbit hole, for example, I think (Chris and Alan correct me if I'm wrong about this) we'd have opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/pkg opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/svosug opensolaris.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ogb etc... This is all of course a WIP, so any comments and thoughts about how to organize to our best advantage are welcomed. Now is a very good time to talk about this and do some work on templates. Regards, Michelle _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
