samwise samwise@bagshot-row.org wrote:
The style thing has been pretty much done - the front page is important to make sure that visitors can easily see what information is available on the site and navigate it. This was one of the fundamental problems of the old site, IMHO. I think we've got that now.
Sorry, but I disagree. It's a generic wiki style and there's no ALUG navigation on most pages. The first few links are the front page, searches, Login, RecentChanges, advanced search, wiki help, front page again, editor, metadata, attachments, more actions and then you finally hit ALUG content. Without CSS, the ALUG content is even barely 'above the fold' for me.
As a minimum, I think the wiki-navigation should move to the end or a side, ALUG-navigation move up the page and reduce the number of fonts and colours. As a maximum, let's do most stuff from useit.com.
I'll do some recoding when I get time, but that's at least a week away. Probably longer. Which is why I asked others to adopt www.alug.
Or maybe I'm wrong and people think a Links page would be useful ... ? What do you think?
In general, I think Links would be best in amongst other pages, not in a Ghetto page unless you want to build a ODP-style directory.
Regards,