Re: [gNewSense-users] restructuring the website

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:00:57 +0100
ben <address@hidden> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> in the forum some people (including me) were off the opinion that the
> gNS website is not really well-structured. there are two points which
> i want to mention (which were the initial reason for me to think
> about this):
> 
> (1) the documentation page
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/Documentation
> is way too difficult to reach, ...

How so? Its linked from the front page of the wiki, and our wiki is on
the side panel.

> 
> (2) while the builder is very important, people who visit the web site
> will mainly be interested in gNS and not in the builder.
> (if this assumption is not right, please excuse me)
> for those the information about the builder is noise which is bound to
> make life difficult for them.

A whopping 2 links on the front page they have to not click.

> 
> i would like to suggest a new structure for the main menu, which would
> be more standard and hence easier and faster to understand. my
> suggestion is far from complete, of course, and is only meant as a
> starting point for discussion.

"... more standard ..." interesting concept. Not sure how what you
proposed makes us closer to matching ... anyone. 
 
> the main points are answers to the facts i mentioned before: separate
> 'builder' section (also for documentation of the builder) and

This practically exists now.

> aggregation of all the gNS user information under 'Documentation'

Its all under wiki.gnewsense.org - which I don't find entirely
unreasonable.

> 

(trim restructure map)
kk

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