[Grok-dev] Re: Suggested site structure

[Kevin Teague]

On May 15, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Sebastian Ware wrote:
>> Suggested site structure using the 4 E model (Excite> Educate>  
>> Empower> Engage).
>> I also suggest having the content mature over time.

Rails and Plone both present a 4E-ish face on their web sites -   
rubyonrails.org and plone.org have something like:

Excite > Get > Educate > Engage

It's a powerful way of presenting information, splitting it up into  
sections, with a users involvement with the system being categorized  
from left to right. I tried to develop my organizations home page  
differently since I didn't want it to "look like plone.org" but in  
the end I came back to that kind of layout because I couldn't come up  
with anything else that felt satisfactory.

>
> * when developing I look for a documentation section. Right now  
> documentation is split up between Learn and Develop. Can we present  
> all documentation in one place somehow too with this?

+1 on uniting documentation within one section, however I would make  
distinction/exception between documentation designed for someone who  
is wants to build applications for Grok and someone who wishes to  
develop core Grok itself - so that we don't confuse a Grok Developer  
with a Developer of Grok :)

>
> * I don't see a 'download' section. In order to get the users to  
> try things out, it needs to be obvious what to download and how to  
> install it.
>

I like the idea of a full 1/4 section dedicated to "Get". This  
doesn't really fit in with the 4E model, but the act of checking for  
new releases, downloading the latest release, etc. is so common with  
an open source application that it is really nice to have a dedicated  
1/4 section for it. I like the phrase, "Get Plone" but "Get Grok" is  
somewhat confusing because "get" and "grok" are both synonyms for "to  
better understand". The phrase "Download" is nice and straightforward  
though.