I like that layout. :D
On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Lorelle on WordPress <[email protected]> wrote: > I am agreeing with the idea of reverting it back and having a solid > discussion on what needs to be there. > > http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Front_Page_Project > > I've started a user page for us to work on this together. For many years, > I've wanted a simple, clean "What do you want to do with WordPress?" feel, > much like the Windows ad campaign years ago. We need to funnel people to the > areas of the Codex where they can find the help they need, so let's make it > really easy. > > I've been working on the answer to that question over the years and it boils > down to those few answers. Take a look and see what you think. Do you feel > the same way? Then let's start looking at how we can group the subcontent > together to keep this clean and simple. > > Thanks! > > Lorelle > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Mika A Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that I'm not on my cell phone > > If anything, the layout is … terrible. It's too much information, not laid > out in any helpful way. As with WikiPedia, most users start in the middle of > the Codex. A search for 'WordPress how do I make a theme' comes up with > http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development first, which is as it should be > ;) A Wiki's not a book (says my mentor over and over again). > > We should revert to what we had and THEN go forward and rebuild it. Except > that I went back to the Before shot and it was this: > http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003 > > That too is way too much information and not enough organization. If it's > more than a couple scrolls, no one's going to read it. I'd break it out so > 'Getting Started' is the brunt of the page. We have a lot of links going to > subsections of pages, which either means each link should be a page of it's > own, or we trust they're going to read. The amount of duplicated information > is adding to the length, and it's almost overwhelming for me, and I know what > I'm doing most of the time ;) (And I lie well the rest of the time!) > > http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/Main_Page > > After I yanked out all the dupe info, there was a lot less going on. I left > off the "Developer" stuff, as that really should be it's own page. Actually, > most of that stuff should go on the FAQ pages, where a cursory skim shows > most of the info, with links, actually is already. > > ---- > Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu) > http://ipstenu.org > > On 24 Aug 2011, at 4:37:48PM, Andrea Rennick wrote: > > > I just tried to access mailing list archives and can't get to > > http://lists.automattic.com/ in Chrome, tho it could be me as Firefox was > > fine. > > > > Anyway - I had been thinking about a multisite section on the front page as > > well. Just to toss that out there. > > > > A. > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Lorelle on WordPress > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Otto. Which brings up the decision to leave it as it is and fix it > > or put it back to what it was. > > > > Has anyone talked to Spencer who made the edits? Is he on the mailing list? > > (Wishing for our own P2 still. :D ) > > > > Lorelle > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lorelle on WordPress > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm also concerned as I don't recognize the person who edited all these > > > changes. The front page of the Codex should have been locked down for > > > editing only by those with the highest levels of administration as it has > > > a > > > long history of spam. It was locked down. > > > > Protections may have been removed a while back when the codex went > > wacky. I reprotected it. If it needs to be reverted or unprotected let > > me know. > > > > -Otto > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-docs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-docs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Andrea Rennick, http://wpebooks.com and http://ronandandrea.com > > Co-author of WordPress All-In-One For Dummies http://rml.me/aio > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-docs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
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