[wp-docs] The main page.
Gooitzen van der Ent
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Thu Aug 25 13:06:43 UTC 2011
Like the layout your suggesting Lorelle.
It's clear, clean and easy to understand. Very understandable headings.
I think one of the more difficult parts will be how many links there
will be under each heading, and where they will direct to.
So far, so good though.
Gooitzen
On 08/25/2011 01:45 PM, Andrea Rennick wrote:
> I like the original layout too.
>
> A.
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org
> <mailto:ipstenu at ipstenu.org>> wrote:
>
> I like that layout. :D
>
>
> On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
> <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com
> <mailto:lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> I am agreeing with the idea of reverting it back and having a
>> solid discussion on what needs to be there.
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Front_Page_Project
>>
>> I've started a user page for us to work on this together. For
>> many years, I've wanted a simple, clean "What do you want to do
>> with WordPress?" feel, much like the Windows ad campaign years
>> ago. We need to funnel people to the areas of the Codex where
>> they can find the help they need, so let's make it really easy.
>>
>> I've been working on the answer to that question over the years
>> and it boils down to those few answers. Take a look and see what
>> you think. Do you feel the same way? Then let's start looking at
>> how we can group the subcontent together to keep this clean and
>> simple.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Lorelle
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Mika A Epstein
>> <ipstenu at ipstenu.org <mailto:ipstenu at ipstenu.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Now that I'm not on my cell phone
>>
>> If anything, the layout is … terrible. It's too much
>> information, not laid out in any helpful way. As with
>> WikiPedia, most users start in the middle of the Codex. A
>> search for 'WordPress how do I make a theme' comes up with
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development first, which is
>> as it should be ;) A Wiki's not a book (says my mentor over
>> and over again).
>>
>> We should revert to what we had and THEN go forward and
>> rebuild it. Except that I went back to the Before shot and it
>> was this:
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003
>> <http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003>
>>
>> That too is way too much information and not enough
>> organization. If it's more than a couple scrolls, no one's
>> going to read it. I'd break it out so 'Getting Started' is
>> the brunt of the page. We have a lot of links going to
>> subsections of pages, which either means each link should be
>> a page of it's own, or we trust they're going to read. The
>> amount of duplicated information is adding to the length, and
>> it's almost overwhelming for me, and I know what I'm doing
>> most of the time ;) (And I lie well the rest of the time!)
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/Main_Page
>>
>> After I yanked out all the dupe info, there was a lot less
>> going on. I left off the "Developer" stuff, as that really
>> should be it's own page. Actually, most of that stuff should
>> go on the FAQ pages, where a cursory skim shows most of the
>> info, with links, actually is already.
>>
>> ----
>> Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
>> http://ipstenu.org
>>
>> On 24 Aug 2011, at 4:37:48PM, Andrea Rennick wrote:
>>
>> > I just tried to access mailing list archives and can't get
>> to http://lists.automattic.com/ in Chrome, tho it could be me
>> as Firefox was fine.
>> >
>> > Anyway - I had been thinking about a multisite section on
>> the front page as well. Just to toss that out there.
>> >
>> > A.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
>> <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > Thanks, Otto. Which brings up the decision to leave it as
>> it is and fix it or put it back to what it was.
>> >
>> > Has anyone talked to Spencer who made the edits? Is he on
>> the mailing list? (Wishing for our own P2 still. :D )
>> >
>> > Lorelle
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Otto
>> <otto at ottodestruct.com <mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
>> > <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > > I'm also concerned as I don't recognize the person who
>> edited all these
>> > > changes. The front page of the Codex should have been
>> locked down for
>> > > editing only by those with the highest levels of
>> administration as it has a
>> > > long history of spam. It was locked down.
>> >
>> > Protections may have been removed a while back when the
>> codex went
>> > wacky. I reprotected it. If it needs to be reverted or
>> unprotected let
>> > me know.
>> >
>> > -Otto
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