On 19/06/2006 10:16 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
A lot of the folks here and users had ideas on how to make the site better so how about we solicit for a users' favourite site with respect to usability.
Actually, that's what I was aiming for. There was a lot of feedback before, so I wanted to make sure that was captured in the form of what we agree on. The previous threads were summaries of the user list and dev list discussions of the time. The threads today are summaries that came from that. It all seems to be consensus.
> The other thing that might be interested is let folks who
had ideas make some sample sites as it can often be hard to visualize what someone is talking about. A few minutes whipping up a new site.xml would give us lots of ideas.
Sounds good. Raphael already did that last time which I've got in my notes here. While I wouldn't agree with the whole structure, there were plenty of good ideas that achieved goals others had stated.
I think simply reorganizing the content itself would be an easy first step. Having a few categories/trails seems to be a popular option so the big long list could just be categorized first and a navigation made.
I'd rather have a direction for how to do that then assemble a long list of documents that aren't finished, unless it is done somewhere off site.
This should be done iteratively and let users guide it's final form with feed back instead of a grandiose plan to restructure everything everything.
That's fine. I don't want a grandiose plan that is miles away (like I said to John, let's not overreach). I just want to capture everything we've discussed, and come up with a concrete plan of *next steps*.
So I think something very simple and tenable is:
1. Ask users for favorite sites, good examples of quality navigation and ease of use.
A useful exercise, but we're going to find a lot of repetition. If you want to do that, it'd be an interesting thing to know. The main ones mentioned so far have been the rails-type sites.
2. Ask users to help show us what they want by making a site.xml and shows groupings they would find useful.
Also useful, not sure we'll get many. Want to add that to the above and send it out?
3. Do something really simple like categorize/trailize the existing content and make the first iteration of navigation improvements.
That's what I was thinking from the front end, and an attack from the plugins at the back with a standardised set of docs for each.
While we're gathering feedback folks can think about how to improve the site further,
Do we really think there are any ideas that haven't been encountered in all these messages?
change the structure of content, and create tools that
might help.
+1 Shoot for short term changes that can be collected and
published so users can browse around and we find what works as we go.
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