Hi websites folks, Sorry for the top-post, it seemed to make more sense to post this particular thing this way. What do you think about Javier's suggestions below? - I agree with the search box on the wiki being hard to find. It should be pretty simple to move it up in the template. I don't have enough space on my hard disk right now to clone the websites repo, but if I moved a few things around and made room and came up with a patch would you folks accept it? - I think the apps are also hard to find but I think that's going to be a more involved project. apps.fedoraproject.org is great for exploring all of them, but we may want to pull out a few (end-user focused I think, not developer-focus) to have more direct links on www.fpo. Does anybody have interest in pursuing this? Thanks, ~m On 11/20/2013 10:35 AM, Javier Garcia wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using the fedora project web site and I have thought about > some suggestions that as an end user can make navigation smoother and > easier, especially to newcomers. > > First, I have noticed that the search box in the fedoraproject wiki > page(fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki) is a little bit hidden > if you are not very familiar with the wiki. I think that a better place > could be on top of the left column(over wiki, navigation and > sub-projects sections) or even better, on the right of "page, > discussion, view source and history" tabs and just under the "log in" > link, as is placed in the page admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ > > Second, the index site "apps.fedoraproject.org" and those sites that are > indexed there are really useful, specially for fedora users. However it > took me too much time to know about some of those wonderful sites and > when I came across the site it was because of a google result. So I > think it should be integrated into a most visible place. I propose to > place a link in the main fedoraproject.org page in the top bar(e.g. in > between help and contributors) called "Resources" that when accessed > should display a page that describes briefly the resources indexed in > apps.fedoraproject.org and a link to them. If only the main resources > can be listed there, I think the apps.fedoraproject.org section should > be described letting the users discover those resources that are not so > important by themselves, nevertheless that section should be renamed to > something like "fedora project map" or "Resources index" because the > name "apps" doesn't intuitively match its purpose. > > Finally if the previous idea is finally implemented, I think that the > "documentation" link that is currently in the "help" page should be also > available in the "Resources" section, as it is a valuable resource too. > > I think this will make navigation easier and more intuitive to fedora > users especially to newcomers, and also make the great existent tools > more available, since if you don't know it exists you can't use it. > > Sincerely, Javier > -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
