Re: Area cover sheets and site structure progress

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

Since the last one was so short i figured i give a little more useful 
feedback on this one.

First of all it looks great in mozilla 0.9.7, but it was horribly 
foobarred in ie, hopefully thats just because ie needs a different style 
sheet or something.

digitect mindspring com wrote:

> Finally found time to work up some "cover sheets" for each area of the site:
>
> Home/user:  http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/ia-2-0-2-user.html
I like the image you picked for the top theme gives the homepage a nice 
clean inviting look.  The left nav looks fine to me but we might want to 
split About and the press kit up (unless they are really just the same 
thing)

My only concern with the top nav is using Shop for a link to information 
on where to buy Gnome stuff, i don't know of anything better, but it 
might be confusing for some people.  (we can use the title attribute on 
the link to give a longer description, ie and mozilla use it as a tooltip)

Your notes about the main body content seem fine to me.  I think there 
should also be a link to screenshots from here, maybe thumbnails 
depending on room/load times.

I like the news box its spiffy, my only suggestions would be to use 
brackets around the date like so [2 January 2002]

> Developer:  http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/ia-2-0-2-developer.html
again i think the theme is a good pick
my only suggestion would be to add a getting involved link on the left 
nav, or at least some more indepth text on the front page

> Foundation: http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/ia-2-0-2-foundation.html
Foundation seemed fine, nice and business like

> Search/Map: http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/ia-2-0-2-search.html
i don't really like just the plan blue top bar it looks out of place 
compared to the other sections.  Also the two items on the left nav look 
really lonely.  Also i don't like the purple for the the search box.  We 
might want to provide a google search link with domain set to gnome.org 
besides whatever search engine we setup.

> At play here are the themes for each and their top and side navigation headings. More input needed!
>
> These are still working from my thesis for the content structure:
>  http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/ia-2-0-2.html
> I'm not going to put any more time into this until/unless we get a pretty good consensus at these levels. (Notice the three levels of detail at the top.) 
>
> Judging by the traffic lately, I'm not exactly sure what I'd call consensus. At some point we're going to have to review each document and place it into the new structure. I don't mind taking the lead on this, but it would be re-assuring to know everybody's happy with the general direction so far. ;)
>
>
> Steve Hall  [ digitect mindspring com ]
>
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hope this replay is more useful than the last one
-josh