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

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

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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