Talk:Main Page

Revision as of 12:23, 12 December 2006

Hello world!

The wiki is growing and growing :)

Jan 11:37, 2 November 2006 (CET)

Hope you like it

I hope you like the new layout of the front page.

Jan 15:46, 4 November 2006 (CET)

Minor suggestion

Yes, the new layout's good. I wondered if the overview material - the stuff it's most useful to read first - should be on the top left, rather than the nitty-gritty of installation and so on...

Jon W

Feel free to change the order of the elements on the front page.

Jan 23:35, 5 November 2006 (CET)

Structure of pages

Anyone have some insight into how we are going to want to structure the content for this wiki ? For example, the Localization page is linked from the Main page, but at the moment, it is ambiguous in that some localization related information is contained in subpages so to say, while other information is contained on the Localization page itself. I haven't spend much time working on wiki's before, so it would be interesting if someone with a bit more knowledge, or a bit more common sense would be able to give some pointers concerning this. It might also be interesting to create a page specifically as an introduction as to how to structure content.

Bart.vandendriessche 09:19, 6 December 2006 (CET)

I also see the need to improve the site structure. I think we should reduce the size of the main page a bit such that a logical navigation structure remains. I have started to do this today by moving some things and creating new pages. The list of available modules and the list of third party integration howtos are now in their own pages. I expect them to grow and the Main page would get less and less legible if we added all new items to it.

I added a Section "Trouble Shooting" which was missing. I would like to see this section answer/link to threads about important and recurring questions from the mailing list. The frequent ones could as well go into the FAQ (which I just discovered yesterday, the link is somewhat unfortunately placed at the left navigation, but I did not notice it there, may be it's not just me but also the newbies, and the FAQ link should be placed somewhere else on the Main page).

There are quite a lot of links to unwritten pages in the administration section on the left side. Those could be reduced. (I think they are unwritten because it's not attractive to anyone to create that sort of screenshot-based documentation already available in the OpenCms book. But I think it's worth to add information which is missing in the book: why are things as they are, background information and good examples and best practice recommendations. Our aim should be to make the Wiki the place with the best available documentation on OpenCms.)

User:Cschoenfeld 6 December 2006 (CET)

I have added a link to the FAQ on the frontpage: "If you are a newbie you should take a look at the OpenCms FAQ."

Jan 14:08, 7 December 2006 (CET)

Here is my suggestion regarding Jan's proposal to restructure the front page: it could be divided into sections based on the different groups of visitors.

• Users
• Administrators
• Developers

Each item in this list should include a short explanation and link to the most important subsections. The start page for each group of readers should contain

• required knowledge
• how to get started
• the concepts and tasks in this area
• where to get help
• where to find documentation
• how to handle problems
• best practices

We could start doing that by introducing just the small list of group links (Users, Administrators, Developers) at the top of the main page and move things into the subsections step by step.

Cschoenfeld 11:17, 12 December 2006 (CET)