[ZWeb] Re: IA for zope.org

[Michael L. Dean]

I have been following the thread about the look of zope.org, and I am left
somewhat unfulfilled because for me it is look and feel.   Developers
usually take a planned and top down approach and are usually uncomfortable
with conforming to how the rest of the planet does things and improves
things -- which is through a definitely iterative and random walk sort of
approach.  I nixed a major development group for a recent project because
they produced a written document which limited changes to three iterations,
which in my book is sheer nonsense.  Why don't you take the three looks,
plug in the content in all, call them 1.zope.org, 2.zope.org and 3.zope.org
and randomly show them when hits occur.  Let people fool around inside, get
a chance to live with a design more than just for the brief beauty queen
parade -- in other words, do it and stop chattering about doing it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Everitt" <paul@zope.com>
To: "Casey Duncan" <c.duncan@nlada.org>
Cc: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@regebro.nu>; <zope-web@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [ZWeb] Re: IA for zope.org


>
> Regarding Lennart's note and Casey's response...
>
> Lennart proposed a new.zope.org IA with audience across the top and
> resource type down the left.  In general I agree, but I have a couple of
> issues on it.
>
> 1) Foremost, I think the audience menu will not be the one people prefer
> to see on every page.  Does this mean the resource type menu will be on
> all subordinate pages in the site?  If so, a number of people that want
> no columns on content pages will be irritated.  If not, then the most
> used links will require a trip to the home page.
>
> 2) The navigation menu at the top of the page, as proposed below, leaves
> out some important items that I think are mandatory: home, search [____]
> (go), and help.  (site map is optional).  If you add these items in,
> then the top of the page starts getting crowded and distracting.
> Opinions or sugestions?
>
> --Paul
>
> Casey Duncan wrote:
> > I like. I do see a definite distinction between Webmasters and
Developers. My
> > only concern with it is that it might cause initial confusion between
what it
> > and dev.zope.org is for. I'm not thinking of a better way to make this
> > distinction other than stating the difference when someone clicks on
> > Developers thinking they will find info on core dev there. Maybe "Zope
> > Core Development" can be a link from there to dev.zope.org.
> >
> > I think this is a very good start though, and here are some potential
> > additions:
> >
> > Under webmasters, a "Zope managment" link to relevant resources for
using the
> > ZMI, WebDAV and FTP might be useful...
> >
> > Under community I would add "Zope Sites" for community sites like
> > ZopeZen/ZopeNewbies et al.
> >
> > Also under community, there should be a "Contribute" link with content
on
> > projects, initiatives and ideas that need resources. Perhaps these can
be
> > trackers, or some sort of "workgroup" functionality (later perhaps).
> >
> > Under Developers it would be nice to have an "Examples" category.
Obviously
> > we need content for this. I volunteer to make some.
> >
> > -Casey
> >
> > P.S. Lets try to make the search functionality *useful* too 8*)
> >
> > On Monday 04 March 2002 05:00 pm, Lennart Regebro allegedly wrote:
> >
> >>I wouldn't mind having two different paths to the content, one according
to
> >>type, and one on the intended audience. It would require two separate
> >>menus, and to make it clear that they are unrelated one should in that
case
> >>be organized vertically and one horizontally. Something like this:
> >>
> >>-----------------
> >>BIG
> >>ZOPE       Newbies     Webmasters    Developers     Members    Search
> >>LOGO
> >>
> >>News
> >>Documentation
> >>   How-To's
> >>   Technical features
> >>   The Zope Book
> >>   Books in print
> >>Download
> >>   Newest Zope
> >>   Latest beta
> >>   Featured products
> >>   Products
> >>Community
> >>   Members
> >>   Mailing list
> >>   Archives
> >>------------------
> >>
> >>Under "Newbies" you would find things like:
> >>Introduction/What is Zope
> >>Getting started
> >>
> >>Under Webmasters:
> >>DTML-Manual (ie direct link to the relevant parts of the Zope book, I
> >>guess) ZPT-manuals (------"-------)
> >>Most popular products
> >>Frequently asked questions
> >>Join the zope-list
> >>
> >>Under Developers:
> >>Getting started with ZClasses
> >>Setting up a good python development environment
> >>ZClasses manual
> >>Developers manual
> >>Join the zope-list
> >>
> >>Under Members:
> >>Join
> >>Login
> >>
> >>Under Search:
> >>Possibility to search only how-tos, only products and so on...
> >>
> >>
> >>I do see a difference between "webmasters" and "developers", ie between
the
> >>people that create sites and the people that create products. Maybe this
> >>difference doesn't really exist, but I do think that there is a huge
> >>difference between these two things, and it would be quite possible to
> >>split this.
> >>
> >
> >
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