[Gimp-web] proposal for new site structure

[Ronnie Tucker]

Hi Karine,

Sorry, the proposal was just brief notes to remind myself of some things...

On Sunday 18 March 2007 11:07, Karine Delvare wrote:
> Here is what I did with Ronnie's proposal:
> > index/News
> > (latest news from developers etc)
>
> News now goes back to the index page (as clicking on the top banner
> does), as the feed is already accessible at the bottom of the menu.
> Another possibility would be to add a smaller feed icon next to that
> menu item.

I was thinking more that when people click News it would take them back to the 
index page where the latest news would be, almost blog like, at the bottom of 
the index page, which is what I think you have?


> > 	Screens
> > 	(grabs of current and future versions)
> Screenshots moved up as suggested, I didn't rename it "Screens" as I've
> never seen that term elsewhere.
> The screenshot page only has current version screenshots for the
> moment. I wonder if future versions are not better placed in the
> release notes.

It could maybe include screens showing off some of the things Gimp can do. 
Some of the Filter screens (showing the controls and preview for a particular 
filter) and so on ?


> > 	Features
> > 	(list main features of GIMP by pointing out relevant buttons
> > on the GIMP toolbar(s)
> > 		Gimp in Film (etc)
> Added Features, pointing to the release notes. The content will be
> reviewed to have something more appealing. I only added a link to the
> 2.4 release notes for now.

For the Features page I was thinking maybe a screenshot of The Gimp's panels 
with very brief explanations of some of the features, with arrows pointing to 
that features button/menu item ??
That could probably be done as an image (with the text and arrows) ?


> > 	History
> > 	(would replace About and include History sections in one page)
> Renamed "About GIMP" to "History", and moved the last parts to the
> "GIMP everywhere" page.
> I'm not sure I understand "include History sections in one page"

What I meant by that was maybe the seven history pages should be rewritten as 
one single page ?


> > 	Downloads
> > 	(one page with anchors to each edition)
> > 		Source
> > 		Linux/Unix
> > 		Windows
> > 		MacOSX
> The bottom download links have been moved up to make submenus.

I should probably have put the download links in a better order in my proposal 
as I would probably put Linux/Unix at the top (with a list of RPM's/DEB's 
etc) then Windows, Mac and Source being last, as i'm sure most people do not 
want to compile the source, this may frighten users off...


> > 	Documentation
> > 	(help files, online documentation etc)
> > 		Books
> > 		Tutorials
> > 		(have screens of what each tutorial will accomplish)
> > 		Mailing Lists
> > 		(update current info)
> Images in the tutorial list are not added yet. Mailing lists not
> updated (I don't know yet what needs updating, I'll have to check).

For mailing list, i'd mention that people need to sign up to the mailing list 
before they email to it. I've had a couple of people email me thinking their 
email would show up on the mailing list but didn't. They hadn't joined the 
mailing list first...


> > 	Get Involved
> > 	(point to mailing lists, webmaster email, IRC, hacking,
> > development, documentation)
> > 		Donating
> > 		Bug Reports
> > 		GIMP Goods
> > 		(include images of the products)
> GIMP Stuff renamed and moved here, no products images yet.

Again, the getting involved page could maybe do with a rewrite to tell people 
how they go about getting involved in the project. Explaining the mailing 
list, maybe a brief help on getting connected to IRC, donation buttons 
(paypal etc?)...


> > 	Links
> > 	(organise links here and from other pages)
> There are some redundancy in the History links and those links. Looks
> like the important links list is not the same. I've just merged them
> for now, and they are left on both pages. I'm not sure GIMP planets
> should be kept in the important links by the way.

In the current (hopefully soon to be old) site the links are scattered all 
over the place, i'd have gathered them up and put them all into this Links 
page...


> So, what is left to do to complete that restructuring:
> - the Features page (release notes currently) needs a complete review.
> - add images to the tutorials list
> - add images to the goods list
> This is not a complete list to bring the website up-to-date with GIMP
> 2.4. There are surely many other items to review, such as:
> - prepare 2.4 screenshots to replace the 2.2 ones in Screenshots
> - update tutorials (mainly menu paths and screenshots)
> and probably much more...

Well, as I said, i'm pretty hopeless with SVN but I can write and do graphics 
stuff so if you need stuff written or screens made up feel free to set me a 
task and i could write stuff and email it to you for inclusion? Just let me 
know whether you'd prefer stuff as html/text.


-- 
Cheerio!
Ronnie

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