Re: How to manage foundation navigation in gnome.org site



Hey!

Thanks for asking. I would think either option 1 or 3 are good (1 being more prominent, 3 more discreet) as I feel both the GNOME project and the GNOME foundation have a very different focus targeting a different audience.

I see w.g.o as everything software related (latest versions, contribution, technical stuff, developers, components, modules, conferences / hackfest announcements, etc) while the foundation site as foundation related (governance, branding, legal, fund raising, case studies/success stories, partners, etc).

FWIW.

Fred

On 06/28/2011 12:45 AM, Yu Liansu wrote:
Hello All,

I am Yu Liansu <http://yuliansu.wordpress.com> the internship of OPW,
recently working on art and web stuff design. I'm writing to all of you
to discussion about integrate foundation website into gnome.org as my
mentor Andreas Nilsson suggest me to do so.

andreasn_ 2011年06月27日 23时47分15秒 wrote on irc:
so the two things I would like to see a good structure accomplish is:
1. Make all parts of the website feel less disconnected from each
other, and 2. Clutter the main site with too much organizational
structure about the project
and those two are hard to fix at the same time

There are several competing ideas. Each with an example:

   1. We can make a foundation icon to replace GNOME.ORG in the head of
      this site, like language switch. The foundation's navigation may
      have the same style as gnome.org, but different logo and footer.
      Example:
      http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
      (notice the upper-right corner the link to mozilla organization)
   2. We can integrate foundation site into the main navigation, e.g. in
      "About Us" add a new section. Example:
      http://www.ubuntu.com/business
      (notice the "Contact Canoncial" which is the only place the
      company name appear, it's a level 2 navigation item)
   3. I guess nobody support this but it doesn't hurt mentioning.
      OpenSuSE put their facilitating organization (Novell) at page footer:
      http://www.opensuse.org

So we have "put on header", "integrate to navigation" and "put to
footer", each with an example from foss projects. Andreas thinks of
collecting opinions so here am I asking for it.

Yu Liansu
Best regards

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