Proposal for the (German) Starting Page
Hello! I intended to create just a page for the categories of articles available in German, yet ended up with something like a start-page. It uses the arrangement of the German wikipedia frontpage. Since wikipedia has been around for some time, people are used to it and I thought there was no need to re-invent the wheel. It is not finished yet, but before I put more effort into it and the page ends up being rejected, I wanted to ask whether this looks good as a proposal for the German startpage, or whether I should just stick to categories-pages. http://de.opensuse.org/Startseite Sven
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:12:02AM +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Hello!
I intended to create just a page for the categories of articles available in German, yet ended up with something like a start-page.
It uses the arrangement of the German wikipedia frontpage. Since wikipedia has been around for some time, people are used to it and I thought there was no need to re-invent the wheel.
It is not finished yet, but before I put more effort into it and the page ends up being rejected, I wanted to ask whether this looks good as a proposal for the German startpage, or whether I should just stick to categories-pages.
I would say to hold it for now. There should soon be a launch of a discusion abou the frontpage. Join that discussion when it starts. The reason is so that all languages have the same layout. That said, I like it, although there are some things, I would rather see differently. Will wait for the discussion to start. :-) houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 02:12 schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Hello!
I intended to create just a page for the categories of articles available in German, yet ended up with something like a start-page.
It uses the arrangement of the German wikipedia frontpage. Since wikipedia has been around for some time, people are used to it and I thought there was no need to re-invent the wheel.
It is not finished yet, but before I put more effort into it and the page ends up being rejected, I wanted to ask whether this looks good as a proposal for the German startpage, or whether I should just stick to categories-pages.
http://de.opensuse.org/Startseite
Sven
As houghi said, looks pretty good, but we need it to be "standard". I like the shortcuts to Help and HowTo's BTW, I think that is a good idea. However I notice that there is no link for News/Nachrichten on the German page, either yours or the official one, in the "über openSUSE" section ... Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Hello! Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 08:13 schrieb David Wright:
As houghi said, looks pretty good, but we need it to be "standard". I like the shortcuts to Help and HowTo's BTW, I think that is a good idea. However I notice that there is no link for News/Nachrichten on the German page, either yours or the official one, in the "über openSUSE" section ...
I added News and Events, as well as links to documentation. I think that the "Benutzerdokumentation" should become a more detailed version of the categories in the "Hilfe finden" section, i.e. the category-title plus the five most frequently read articles from that section. Is there a way to find out which articles are read the most? Sven
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:13:37AM +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
I added News and Events, as well as links to documentation.
OK
I think that the "Benutzerdokumentation" should become a more detailed version of the categories in the "Hilfe finden" section,
Yes, they should. This should (also?) be done by adding "User Documentation" in the menubar.
i.e. the category-title plus the five most frequently read articles from that section.
No. Please no 'most frequent read articles' for real content. Make a page with wathever stats you want, but not on a content base. What will happen is that people see that an article is most read an then start reading it, making it more most read, just because it was already most read in the first place. You could base it on how often pages are selected after a search and what the most searched pages are, but please don't use simple clicks to direct the order. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau
Hello again! Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 11:25 schrieb houghi:
I think that the "Benutzerdokumentation" should become a more detailed version of the categories in the "Hilfe finden" section,
You could base it on how often pages are selected after a search and what the most searched pages are, but please don't use simple clicks to direct the order.
I would not want it to base it only on clicks, but still I do not see that much trouble in using them, since nobody, that would like to read something about WLAN, will click on any article, which does not state WLAN, just because it is in the TOP 5. Mostly the TOP 5 will be links to sections anyway and not distinct articles. http://de.opensuse.org/Benutzerdokumentation_anders This is my unfinished draft for the user-documentation. "Alle Artikel" would link to the category and display all of its articles, sorted into sub-sections. Sven
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