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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Omar Kilani <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Alternate PostgreSQL.org Design
Date: 12 Nov 2004 14:53:20 -0500
Message-ID: <1100289200.5475.116.camel@camel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E43070FE@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk>
References: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E43070FE@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk>

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:38, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Treat
> > Sent: 12 November 2004 15:08
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: Omar Kilani; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Alternate PostgreSQL.org Design
> > 
> > please note I am dropping -advocacy from this discussion 
> > since I need some focus on www work
> 
> Good call.
> 
> > 
> > One problem I have with Lukasz design is that some of the 
> > subsection really scream out for second level navigation. 
> > 
<snip>
> > 
> > These underlying structural issues need to be addressed 
> > regardless of what design we use. 
> 
> Yes, agreed.
> 

here is a more concrete example of a structural issue. One of the items
on the TODO list is getting some initial integration of
developer.postgresql.org into the main site.  I came up with the
following structure that I think would work fairly well for integrating
the two sites:

Developer/
	Roadmap/
				TODO
				unapplied patches
	Coding/
				bios
				cvs retrieve
				dev lists
				translating
				info/
					flowchart
					db internals
					implementation
				(howto build for linux/win32)
				(db projects ie. odbc,jdbc,dbd,etc...)
				(howto on writing docs)			
	Testing/
				beta
				dev docs
				dev docs 5 min
				(autobuildproject)
				(nightly builds)
				(report a bug)
	Tools/
				cvs - web 
				cvs interfaces - web
				(lxr)
	FAQ/
				faq

Basically we start with a main nav "developer" link, which takes us into
the developer content. This content cant be broken down into a number of
subcategories (RoadMap, Coding, Testing, Tools, FAQ), which would have
further content underneath them. I've added some items in () to show
where future content might grow into. 

In the lukasz design, I would basically be forced to have the main
developer page be a list of links that scroll down the page. In the
tinysofa design, we could put the subcatagories into a right hand nav
bar with content or further links into the main section, and it would
not be cramped in like we are with the main nav bar. 

Now, we could probably accomplish this with the luckasz design, though
all we have seen are repeated right hand nav bar style pages. The
tinysofa design has the advantage of already seeing how these types of
subpages would look. 


Robert Treat
-- 
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL





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