My WineHQ menu structure proposal
Jeremy White
jwhite at codeweavers.com
Sun Nov 3 08:52:20 CST 2002
> I think the home page should be targeted to people who may not know what
> Wine is. Thus it should *answer* the question 'What is Wine'. The Gimp's
> web site (http://www.gimp.org/) is a good example in that respect. The
> first paragraph of the page answers the question 'What is the GIMP?'.
I agree with this; our navigation system right now, while pretty,
honestly takes up more real estate than it needs to.
>
> Thus I think there should be a link to the News page but no more. The
> news page is for returning visitors and if that's what they care about
> then they should bookmark that page rather than the home page.
Here, I disagree. I think having a short news box, as we have now,
gives people a sense of what's going on right now with the project,
and gives a sense of vitality.
[snip]
> * That brings me to another point. I like the menus in Bugzilla and the
> Application Database:
> http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugs/
> http://appdb.winehq.com/
> I vote for using the same system for WineHQ. This would also bring a
> better unity of style. Each top-level menu is a 'box' that contains all
> the level two menu items.
And if we switched to this style, we could unify the appdb and
bugzilla looks and it would be a consistent style...
>
> * Who cares about an 'Applications Database'? What's that anyway?
> Would a potential Wine user want to have dealings with a database?
> Nah. Must be for geeks. What users want to know is what applications run
> in Wine and thus that's how the menu entry and the thing itself should
> be called: 'Supported Applications'. Even if the truth is that it lists
> applications that do not work too.
Nice change.
>
> So, here goes:
>
> Home
> (no menu item for this one, just click on the Wine logo)
>
> 1. About Wine
> 1.1. Introduction
> a. Intro
> b. Why Wine
> c. Myths
> d. Technology
> e. History
> g. Companies
> 1.2. Screenshots
> 1.3. Supported Applications
> 1.4. Contributing
> a. Application maintainer
> b. Bug triage
> c. Website maintenance
> d. Development
> 1.5. News
> 1.6. Press
>
> 2. Download
> 2.1. Binaries (installing from binaries)
> 2.2. Source (installing from source)
> 2.3. CVS (installing from CVS)
>
> 3. Support
> 3.1. FAQ
> 3.2. Howto
> 3.3. Bug Tracking
> 3.4. Troubleshooting
> 3.5. Forums
> a. Mailing Lists
> b. Newsgroup
> c. IRC Channel
>
> 4. Documentation
> 4.1. User Guide
> 4.2. Developer Guide
> 4.3. Packager Guide
> 4.4. API Docs
>
> 5. Development
> 5.1. Developer Hints
> 5.2. Submitting Patches
> 5.3. TODO Lists
> - 0.9/1.0 TODOs
> - Tasklist/bug 395
> - FIXMEs/bug 455,
> - Tasklets/bug 406
> - most wanted bugs
> 5.4. Status
> 5.5. Resources
> a. LXR
> b. CVS Web
> c. Who's Who
> d. Tools
> e. Win32 Documentation, X doc, etc.
>
> 6. Miscellaneous
> 6.1. Community
> 6.2. Related projects
> 6.3. Contacts
> 6.4. Legal
>
>
>
> 'Just' 33 menu items (down from 44 for both Dimitrie's and Jeremy's
> proposals). WineHQ is a big site... Hopefully there's not too much
> hiding.
I like this quite a bit; however, I still feel that #6 should
be "Community"; Contacts and Legal can easily be moved to
small footnotes on the top level page and/or the About page.
Just having a 'Misc' category makes my skin crawl, because it
always seems like the web designer couldn't be bothere to
think something through.
One other issue: if we do switch to an app db style of
navigation, then we're going to need a lot of content
to fill in items (iow, we're going to need stuff
to fill in for 2.a, 3.a, 4.a, and so on).
Jer
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