Re: 2. Audience (was Re: Design document [Draft 1])

[Ryan Muldoon <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:55:14AM +0500, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
> > 
> > > I am curious what specific things are targetted at Businesses and
> > > not just large groups of users (like Universities).
> > > 
> > I think the intention was to get businesses looking at the foundation.
> > I guess that this could fit under "contact us" - but we should aim for 
> > clarity whenever possible.
> 
> Ok, I suggest "Foundation" also be a toplevel heading which takes you to
> the foundation website.  
> 
ok, that sounds like a good idea

> > 
> > > I suggest the following top level navigation:
> > > 
> > > |               | The Desktop | Download | Development | News | Contact Us |
> > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > | (Contents Bar)|
> > > | .....         |
> > > | .....         |
> > > | .....         |
> > > | .....         |
> > > | .....         |
> > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > |                              Webmaster | Legal
> > > 
> > > Here is what would go in each section:
> > > 
> > >   The Desktop - All information for the User and non-coding Contributor (www.gnome.org)
> > >   Download - Information on downloading GNOME and GNOME Applications (www.gnome.org/download/)
> > >   Development - For the developer (developer.gnome.org)
> > >   News - News about GNOME (news.gnome.org)
> > >   Contact Us - All contact info, press kit, etc. (www.gnome.org/contact_us/)
> > > 
> > what about a "Projects" subheading?  This might be useful to point to 
> > sub-groups, like Documentation, Translation, UI, Sound, etc.  
> > 
> > The benefit of a "projects" section would be that my "projects of the week"
> > idea would fall nicely under that category. (wording would have to change
> > though...)
> > 
> 
> This would go under "The Desktop" since they are contributor
> things.
> 
> There will be quite a few things on the sidebar, and we should 
> probably go over each area one-by-one and figure out exactly
> what goes in each area.  First we need to agree on an initial set
> of toplevel navigation controls.  If later on we can't resolve
> where things should go, we start over.
> 
I think that we should avoid things like sub-sub-headings if possible.....
I'll try and think about this tomorrow and see if I can come up with a 
suggested navigation system.


    --Ryan