[Grok-dev] Re: Grok site: changing "Learn" to "Documentation" in the main navigation

[Sebastian Ware]

And I am advocating the ruby-on-rails version because of the described  
benefits. Please look at the original design

http://www.urbantalk.se/DEVELOPER/grok_3

3 jan 2008 kl. 13.40 skrev Tres Seaver:

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> Sebastian Ware wrote:
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>>
>> The nouns require you to know what you are looking for in order to do
>> what you want to do. I believe that the verbs are infinitely more
>> usable, because it requires us to do the thinking, whereas nouns
>> leaves the thinking to the visitor (who has little or no idea of how
>> we structured the website).
>>
>> Nouns are good for experts (on the grok website). Verbs good for the
>> "newbie visitor". However, a good search is even better for experts  
>> if
>> the content grows to be more than what is really easily browseable.
>
> Can we assume that other successful open-source / free software  
> project
> sites might provide clues to what "works"?  A quick survey:
>
>
> - http://python.org/ uses nouns for navigation.
>
>
> - http://djangoproject.com/ uses nouns as the "structure" (the
>   navigation links at the top of each page), but has "Meet Django"
>   as its lead item on the homepage.
>
>
> - http://rubyonrails.org/ uses nouns for navigation, but has verbs
>   ("Get Excited", "Get Started", "Get Better", "Get Involved") on
>   the homepage.
>
>
> - http://turbogears.org/ uses nouns for navigatino, *except* for
>   the "Install" section.
>
> - http://extjs.com/ (Ext JS framework) uses nouns for naviation,
>   *except" for the "Learn" section.
>
> - http://drupal.org/ (PHP CMS) uses nouns for navigation, *except*
>   for "Download".
>
>
>
>
> Tres.
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