Karsten Wade wrote:
For the Fedora 7 release, we are going to be using a static set of pages
for the front of fedoraproject.org. For those of you who remember the
Fedora Core 6 release and how hammered the Wiki was, you'll be happy
that we can rest a bit easier for the coming release.
Here is a *mock-up* using current styling, based on some existing
conversations (source image below[1]); it is put forth for discussion on
this list:
http://people.redhat.com/~kwade/fedora/websites/images/main-page-redesign-0.1.png
Really, it's just a starting point for conversation. I expect all ya'll
to speak up. :)
We'll either deliver this as a hand-built static set of pages, or we'll
use our spankin' new Plone instance[2] to output it. Doing the latter
is useful because we simultaneously work up our CSS for Plone.
The static set of pages are:
Main page
|=> Download via torrent
|=> Download from a mirror
|=> Fedora for end-users
|=> Fedora for developers
\=> Join Fedora
The only other links on the page are:
[Docs] => docs.fedoraproject.org
[Wiki] => fedoraproject.org/wiki (or wiki.fedoraproject.org?)
Legal => fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal
Trademark Guidelines => http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines
That is a reduction from 66 links (current front page) to 9.
The page we design or some variant of it can become the permanent
front-page for fedoraproject.org. In that case, we'll work from the set
of redesign ideas from FUDCon[3], and in that scenario the links on the
page actually *reduce* to:
Main page
|=> I want to do stuff with Fedora
|=> I want to get Fedora and stuff
|=> I want to join Fedora
|=> Legal
|=> Usage Policy
\=> Trademark Guidelines
Something like that. :)
Excellent, I'd like to get this out there soon so that it can be google
indexed and such before the release. I think initially we may want to
reference the wiki directly. Just because so many have come to know
it. I think just about everyone will be happy with a fresh minimal
landing page for Fedora though.
-Mike
