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
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