[kdewebdev-site] Quanta Public Site Structure < final ? No really...

[Eric Laffoon]

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On Friday 05 March 2004 9:15 pm, Bill Chmura wrote:
> Okay here it is again...
>
> Without being side tracked by the underlying structure, or how we would
> program things, or anything like that... is this good?  At least good for
> now?  It will not be set in stone after all...  We can move things as it
> goes along, and that is to be expected in any web project.
>
> key:  ... indicates a subsection
>
>
> Home
> Features
> ...Quanta Can...  (Was its own heading before)
I still prefer a more dynamic phrasing. For example: Quanta in Action, Using 
Quanta, Working with Quanta, even Quanta Capabilities. I'd stop short of 
"Ruling the Universe with Quanta" or "Quanta won't eat your homework" ;-)
> ...Comparison chart
> Screen Shots
> Quanta News  (Was Quanta in the news)
> Testimonials
> Get Quanta!
> ...Requirements
> ...Installing
> ...Donate to Quanta
> Support
> FAQ
> User Support Area
> Developer Support Area  (Link to developer.kdewebdev)
>
So the ellipsis prefix indicates this is a menu item on a secondary page 
leading to other pages. Correct? This is a 10 item main menu. I have several 
elements of confusion and concern, so I'll start with the easy one, concern. 
I think having the donate menu in "Get Quanta" is an interesting idea, but I 
don't think it's really ideal as a primary location. Secondarily it's great. 
We are also missing something I think is essential, helping the project... 
And what is the different between "Support" and "User Support Area"? I 
believe the following menus need to be in place. I'm open to discussion but I 
believe the above is incomplete.

User Support
... Mailing List Hot Topics (or something on the hot fed)
... Search Mailing list (Alternately may replace above)
... Forums
... How to Get help (look at the help menu and use bugs.kde.org)
Supporting Quanta
... Contributing Resources (scripts, templates, etc...)
... Become a Developer
... Join Quanta Support (forum admin, vetting scripts, etc...)
... Become a Sponsor
... Make a Donation
Resource Repository
... Contribute Resources
... Search and Retrieve Resources

The resources section could conceivably be in the support sections but then 
that would break them up. So a separate top level menu seems logical. We need 
to seriously promote this to flesh out what Quanta offers.

Now on to what is confusing. We will have separate subdomains for each app. 
Technically this may not be difficult and it doesn't have to have a lot to do 
with layout... but it also does. I am not clear what menu I'm looking at 
above but I would guess it is for quanta.kdewebdev.org. It's totally Quanta 
centric. So that means we still have the main menu as well as the other 
subdomains. However common everything is that is what subdomains gets you... 
a miniature domain of your own. 

My impression is that we can develop some consistency of look across them from 
the first but we are still working on getting the details for it. So I'm 
confused. Wouldn't a consistant approach be to...?
1) layout kdewebdev.org menus
2) layout quanta.kdewebdev.org menus
3) set up exceptions for the other application subdomains
4) consider if we will do the same visual level for developer section

I would also like to request your thoughts on the developer section. If you 
pretty much want to let the developers run with it then I'd like to request a 
volunteer to help me begin mapping the procedures and data for it. I have 
much of it in mind and you seem to have other things under control. With 
someone helping I could reduce my load here.

Eric
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