Round two of the front page structure changes...

[Christian Brueffer]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:10:30PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:21:41 +0100
> Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I like it, but I think there are still way too many links in the
> > sidebar.
> 
> Yes, too many can be overwhelming.  I'm thinking of ways to get
> around this.  If we do site cleanup, then perhaps we can break
> things up a bit.  Like this:
> 
> Front page
> Support ---- America -- links, documentation, ...
>              Other -- links to <language> sites, translated docs, ...
> 

I have to think about this some more, I don't think your example above
catches it quite right.

> > 
> > As you already notes, the 'Vendors' section actually belongs to the
> > 'Software' section.  'Documentation' and 'Support' could be consolidated
> > into a 'Resources' section.
> 
> That was kind of what I thought too, and I think Mark noted that
> in either private/public mail to me.  Like on the IBM/Microsoft/Intel
> site, you visit the support section (usually support.domain.xxx) and
> they have downloads, documentation, software/hardware errata,
> bug/knowledge base...  There may be something to that idea...
> 

Yes, something like that would be nice.

> 
> > 
> > Maybe we should put the links to language specific web pages in a more
> > prominent position (and list all available languages on the front page).
> > 
> > In general, we should unclutter the side bar.  IMHO, NetBSD and OpenBSD
> > have done a good job in this regard.  4 or 5 big subsections which
> > roughly categorize the links to subsection pages, which can contain all
> > the other stuff.
> 
> My goal explained!  A good one or two 'key words' which link to a
> large area containing everything they would want.  Easy to navigate,
> tons of useful information, no hunting around an endless wave of
> links to find one simple answer...  Not that our site is that bad,
> yet...
> 

Good to see we're on the same line on this one.  Haven't read most of
the other thread, so if I just parrotted what you already said, sorry
about that one :-)

- Christian

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