A proposal/draft for the link/structure of the OFbiz site

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Hi all,

after a bit of research (looking at other ASF projects' sites) I've
drafted a rough sketch of a structure of the site that I think would be
nice to have.

My proposal:

a) suppress the top tabs (Home/Docs and Books) or change it to (Site/Doc
site)
b) keep the same left column links in all the pages (and highlight the
link to which the current page refers
c) the set of links could be this (The "Documentation" section is
incomplete):

===Apache OFBiz===
Welcome        [1]
News

===Documentation===
Documentation
Documentation Site
Resources
Marketing

===Download===
Releases
Trunk      [2]

===Community===
Mailing Lists
Source Repository  [3]
Issue Tracker

===Project Management===
Mission      [4]
People
Bylaws


[1] = the main page
[2] = a link to something like this:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM

[3] = a link to something like this:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mgM

[4] = a link to a page with the Board Resolution

What do you think?

Jacopo

[Ashish Vijaywargiya-3]

Jacopo,

I like the structure.
+1 for this proposal.

On 1/2/07, Jacopo Cappellato <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> after a bit of research (looking at other ASF projects' sites) I've
> drafted a rough sketch of a structure of the site that I think would be
> nice to have.
>
> My proposal:
>
> a) suppress the top tabs (Home/Docs and Books) or change it to (Site/Doc
> site)
> b) keep the same left column links in all the pages (and highlight the
> link to which the current page refers
> c) the set of links could be this (The "Documentation" section is
> incomplete):
>
> ===Apache OFBiz===
> Welcome        [1]
> News
>
> ===Documentation===
> Documentation
> Documentation Site
> Resources
> Marketing
>
> ===Download===
> Releases
> Trunk      [2]
>
> ===Community===
> Mailing Lists
> Source Repository  [3]
> Issue Tracker
>
> ===Project Management===
> Mission      [4]
> People
> Bylaws
>
>
> [1] = the main page
> [2] = a link to something like this:
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM
>
> [3] = a link to something like this:
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mgM
>
> [4] = a link to a page with the Board Resolution
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jacopo
>

--
Regards
Ashish Vijaywargiya
Aditisoft Technology Laboratory

[David E Jones-2]

On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> ===Download===
> Releases
> Trunk      [2]
>
> [1] = the main page
> [2] = a link to something like this:
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM

This page looks a lot like the old "Setup Guide" that has been  
updated over time, and that I believe is pretty up to date:

http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/docs/setup.html

It would be good to clean that up, and of course put it in  
Confluence, and then point to that as a starting place.

I was also thinking of adding some text to the beginning to help  
people decide, similar to what I wrote in the release plan in the  
first to sub-sections of the "General Goals, Policies and Process"  
section:

http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE

-David

[David E Jones-2]

Jacopo,

Could you put this on the new site plan wiki page?

http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t

We'll probably want to adjust the contents a bit, and I'm not sure  
what certain things might mean (ie Marketing, Resources). Actually I  
think of the mailing lists, source repo and issue tracker as  
resources...

We might want to have a section or link for contributors pointing to  
some of the pages in the OFBADMIN space.

-David


On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> after a bit of research (looking at other ASF projects' sites) I've  
> drafted a rough sketch of a structure of the site that I think  
> would be nice to have.
>
> My proposal:
>
> a) suppress the top tabs (Home/Docs and Books) or change it to  
> (Site/Doc site)
> b) keep the same left column links in all the pages (and highlight  
> the link to which the current page refers
> c) the set of links could be this (The "Documentation" section is  
> incomplete):
>
> ===Apache OFBiz===
> Welcome        [1]
> News
>
> ===Documentation===
> Documentation
> Documentation Site
> Resources
> Marketing
>
> ===Download===
> Releases
> Trunk      [2]
>
> ===Community===
> Mailing Lists
> Source Repository  [3]
> Issue Tracker
>
> ===Project Management===
> Mission      [4]
> People
> Bylaws
>
>
> [1] = the main page
> [2] = a link to something like this:
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM
>
> [3] = a link to something like this:
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mgM
>
> [4] = a link to a page with the Board Resolution
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jacopo

[Jacopo Cappellato]

David E Jones wrote:
>
> Jacopo,
>
> Could you put this on the new site plan wiki page?
>
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t

Done, see Proposal One here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t

Jacopo

>
> We'll probably want to adjust the contents a bit, and I'm not sure what
> certain things might mean (ie Marketing, Resources). Actually I think of
> the mailing lists, source repo and issue tracker as resources...
>
> We might want to have a section or link for contributors pointing to
> some of the pages in the OFBADMIN space.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> after a bit of research (looking at other ASF projects' sites) I've
>> drafted a rough sketch of a structure of the site that I think would
>> be nice to have.
>>
>> My proposal:
>>
>> a) suppress the top tabs (Home/Docs and Books) or change it to
>> (Site/Doc site)
>> b) keep the same left column links in all the pages (and highlight the
>> link to which the current page refers
>> c) the set of links could be this (The "Documentation" section is
>> incomplete):
>>
>> ===Apache OFBiz===
>> Welcome        [1]
>> News
>>
>> ===Documentation===
>> Documentation
>> Documentation Site
>> Resources
>> Marketing
>>
>> ===Download===
>> Releases
>> Trunk      [2]
>>
>> ===Community===
>> Mailing Lists
>> Source Repository  [3]
>> Issue Tracker
>>
>> ===Project Management===
>> Mission      [4]
>> People
>> Bylaws
>>
>>
>> [1] = the main page
>> [2] = a link to something like this:
>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM
>>
>> [3] = a link to something like this:
>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mgM
>>
>> [4] = a link to a page with the Board Resolution
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Jacopo

[Jacopo Cappellato]

About the "Open Source Projects & Standards" section at the bottom of
the main page... maybe we could suppress it and use the
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/Vg page instead (maybe after some cleanups and
improvements there).

Jacopo


Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> David E Jones wrote:
>>
>> Jacopo,
>>
>> Could you put this on the new site plan wiki page?
>>
>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t
>
> Done, see Proposal One here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t
>
> Jacopo
>
>>
>> We'll probably want to adjust the contents a bit, and I'm not sure
>> what certain things might mean (ie Marketing, Resources). Actually I
>> think of the mailing lists, source repo and issue tracker as resources...
>>
>> We might want to have a section or link for contributors pointing to
>> some of the pages in the OFBADMIN space.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> after a bit of research (looking at other ASF projects' sites) I've
>>> drafted a rough sketch of a structure of the site that I think would
>>> be nice to have.
>>>
>>> My proposal:
>>>
>>> a) suppress the top tabs (Home/Docs and Books) or change it to
>>> (Site/Doc site)
>>> b) keep the same left column links in all the pages (and highlight
>>> the link to which the current page refers
>>> c) the set of links could be this (The "Documentation" section is
>>> incomplete):
>>>
>>> ===Apache OFBiz===
>>> Welcome        [1]
>>> News
>>>
>>> ===Documentation===
>>> Documentation
>>> Documentation Site
>>> Resources
>>> Marketing
>>>
>>> ===Download===
>>> Releases
>>> Trunk      [2]
>>>
>>> ===Community===
>>> Mailing Lists
>>> Source Repository  [3]
>>> Issue Tracker
>>>
>>> ===Project Management===
>>> Mission      [4]
>>> People
>>> Bylaws
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] = the main page
>>> [2] = a link to something like this:
>>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM
>>>
>>> [3] = a link to something like this:
>>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mgM
>>>
>>> [4] = a link to a page with the Board Resolution
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Jacopo

[David E Jones-2]

That is one of the sections of "convenient" links that has been  
around forever and it could be removed altogether... If someone  
really wants to know such things they should find something pretty  
easily (ie the page you referenced...) searching on docs.ofbiz.org,  
or if they know the ASF patterns they'll find what they're looking  
for in the LICENSE file...

As for the standards links there... I've been thinking of killing  
those for a while as they represent more of the standards that we  
should or would like to implement, but for the most part haven't yet  
(and that is obviously confusing).

-David


On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:27 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> About the "Open Source Projects & Standards" section at the bottom  
> of the main page... maybe we could suppress it and use the http://
> docs.ofbiz.org/x/Vg page instead (maybe after some cleanups and  
> improvements there).
>
> Jacopo
>
>
> Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>> David E Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Jacopo,
>>>
>>> Could you put this on the new site plan wiki page?
>>>
>>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t
>> Done, see Proposal One here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/t
>> Jacopo
>>>
>>> We'll probably want to adjust the contents a bit, and I'm not  
>>> sure what certain things might mean (ie Marketing, Resources).  
>>> Actually I think of the mailing lists, source repo and issue  
>>> tracker as resources...
>>>
>>> We might want to have a section or link for contributors pointing  
>>> to some of the pages in the OFBADMIN space.
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> after a bit of research (looking at other ASF projects' sites)  
>>>> I've drafted a rough sketch of a structure of the site that I  
>>>> think would be nice to have.
>>>>
>>>> My proposal:
>>>>
>>>> a) suppress the top tabs (Home/Docs and Books) or change it to  
>>>> (Site/Doc site)
>>>> b) keep the same left column links in all the pages (and  
>>>> highlight the link to which the current page refers
>>>> c) the set of links could be this (The "Documentation" section  
>>>> is incomplete):
>>>>
>>>> ===Apache OFBiz===
>>>> Welcome        [1]
>>>> News
>>>>
>>>> ===Documentation===
>>>> Documentation
>>>> Documentation Site
>>>> Resources
>>>> Marketing
>>>>
>>>> ===Download===
>>>> Releases
>>>> Trunk      [2]
>>>>
>>>> ===Community===
>>>> Mailing Lists
>>>> Source Repository  [3]
>>>> Issue Tracker
>>>>
>>>> ===Project Management===
>>>> Mission      [4]
>>>> People
>>>> Bylaws
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] = the main page
>>>> [2] = a link to something like this:
>>>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/aQM
>>>>
>>>> [3] = a link to something like this:
>>>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mgM
>>>>
>>>> [4] = a link to a page with the Board Resolution
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Jacopo
>