Re: [Fwd: Re: www.gtk.org]

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim helixcode com>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:44:45AM -0500, pat eyler wrote:
> >From: Shawn T Amundson <amundson eventloop com>
> >In my opinion, we need these sites:

> Just at a glance, I don't see a gtk Site, an office site, an
> umbrella site to tie all of the sub-sites together, or templates
> and tools for people interested in maintaining pages/sites for
> software related to GNOME.  Some things to think about here would
> be:

>   * maintaining an overall theme to the sites, while keeping
>     each site somewhat different
>   * allowing some content to be duplicated on different sites
>     without requiring each copy to be updated
>   * keeping a convenient navigational system to move laterally
>     or vertically through the site hierarchy.

> (template driven content creation seems like a reasonable answer
>   to the first two --it doesn't have to be dynamicly served though)

To me, it's not really given that there are going to be a lot of different
sites, as such. There might, of course. But we shouldn't exclude the
possibility that all gnome sites (probably not the GTK site, though) merge
onto one server, and the old server names become redirects to this one
server. This is an organizational issue, of course, and good navigation can
make this sort of distinction somewhat irrelevant, but it's still worth
thinking about.


> Does it make sense to think about a couple of kinds of users and how they 
> would interact with the site?

We did that sort of thing on the previous www.gnome.org design, although
probably not as thoroughly as we should have. Basically, this resulted in the
first part of the navigation menu, the "task-oriented navigation", where
people could choose between some common tasks they were likely to want to
perform on the site.

User and task analysis is pretty essential from the usability end of things.
I think I'll start a thread with some suggestions for user types and tasks,
for us to add to.

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