The idea being that someone who looks it has a basic answer to the
question "So what's this 'Fudge' thing about? They talk about cooking
here or what?"
Yeah, I don't have a good solution to that one. At least, not a solution
that doesn't involve a JS patch (tooltips, or an accordion thingy like is
in the maps), and that leads to minesweeping. And page bloat.
But first off, I'm really looking for something to go in the content part
of the page. The sidebars are a separate (unresolved) issue.
I thought this was in the content part of the page and not the side bar?
My guess is that if they are coming over from www.phoenyx then they
will be going deeper in on the first click. But I don't now, so feel
free to ignore me.
I'm figuring so. I'm looking at the Category pages (Discussion, Games,
News) being the most practical jumping-off point, and it's not hard to put
direct links on www (I think we have them now).
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, links to those and when you spot
light a group on the main page, a link directly to it.
I could ask DrWex if he wants to comment, but he's a bit busy these days....
Yeah, and I have a message from him sitting in my inbox waiting for an
answer... though really he needs someone who's a SuSE expert at this
point. Carl would shudder if he knew someone was asking me for sysadmin
advice...
Maybe you should forward the email over to Carl?
Plus, right now it's not clear which pages are functioning the way I set
them to and which ones are merely inheriting default structure from the
template unintentionally, so I don't want him (or anybody else here) to
waste time looking at too many pages that weren't intended to work that
way anyway.
I think it's more the "Call in the expert to give you an overview of
what works *before* you spend a lot of time on the details and *then*
find out the overall design is broken" type of thing. Not a "how does
*this* page look?" but more of a "How should the overall site
navigation work and what information should be present at each level?"
Then work on how that information is presented.
So how *is* the base coming along? Does he have the hidden poles for
quick access in yet?
I've mentioned we have a laundry chute, right? (That's staying, in the
Great Bathroom Remodel.)
That works, as long as the "heap o' dirty laundry (tm)" never really
all goes away. But it is hard pulling on spandex while in free-fall.
Karen Cravens
Mon
Oct 8
2007
20:05Z
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mike Feldhusen wrote:
I thought this was in the content part of the page and not the side bar?
Yeah. But I'm looking at yoinking that whole bit and putting in something
like this:
http://wiki.phoenyx.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ForumFrontPage
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, links to those and when you spot
light a group on the main page, a link directly to it.
Right. Or maybe the sidebar lives over there, too. Not sure yet.
Maybe you should forward the email over to Carl?
Probably so.
I think it's more the "Call in the expert to give you an overview of
what works *before* you spend a lot of time on the details and *then*
find out the overall design is broken" type of thing. Not a "how does
*this* page look?" but more of a "How should the overall site
navigation work and what information should be present at each level?"
Then work on how that information is presented.
There's that. Though it's all just templates, anyway... the structure is
what it is. And I'm going to throw it all away and write a Javascript
client anyway...
That works, as long as the "heap o' dirty laundry (tm)" never really
all goes away. But it is hard pulling on spandex while in free-fall.
It lands on top of the dryer, and the ceiling is low, so we're talking
maybe a three, four foot difference between that and floor level upstairs.
Eris Reddoch
Mon
Oct 8
2007
20:19Z
Karen Cravens wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mike Feldhusen wrote:
My first thought is that the main page should not go more than two
levels deep, this one goes three. And each section ("Discussion",
"Games", "News", etc.) should be set off somehow.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what the sidebar will look like, or if it should
stay the same forum-wide. I just kind of stuck that in there, and
initially "Discussion" was at the level that "Forum" is. But then I
decided to stick in planet links, though I'm not really sure they should
rate that highly. There's always the top bar for that.
Gamers (description here)
(or here)
I'm iffy on the description thing. That gets busy so fast.
Karen, how about roll over "tool tips" for the description?
Roll the mouse onto a link and it displays a description in a
pop up. That would be less "busy" and more accessible to the
visually handicapped...I would think. I doubt that would be
too hard to implement, it isn't in Java anyway. :)
Eris
