static page for F7 release, new directions
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Apr 25 23:37:44 UTC 2007
Karsten Wade wrote:
> For the Fedora 7 release, we are going to be using a static set of pages
> for the front of fedoraproject.org. For those of you who remember the
> Fedora Core 6 release and how hammered the Wiki was, you'll be happy
> that we can rest a bit easier for the coming release.
>
> Here is a *mock-up* using current styling, based on some existing
> conversations (source image below[1]); it is put forth for discussion on
> this list:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/~kwade/fedora/websites/images/main-page-redesign-0.1.png
>
> Really, it's just a starting point for conversation. I expect all ya'll
> to speak up. :)
>
> We'll either deliver this as a hand-built static set of pages, or we'll
> use our spankin' new Plone instance[2] to output it. Doing the latter
> is useful because we simultaneously work up our CSS for Plone.
>
> The static set of pages are:
>
> Main page
> |=> Download via torrent
> |=> Download from a mirror
> |=> Fedora for end-users
> |=> Fedora for developers
> \=> Join Fedora
>
> The only other links on the page are:
>
> [Docs] => docs.fedoraproject.org
> [Wiki] => fedoraproject.org/wiki (or wiki.fedoraproject.org?)
> Legal => fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal
> Trademark Guidelines => http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines
>
> That is a reduction from 66 links (current front page) to 9.
>
> The page we design or some variant of it can become the permanent
> front-page for fedoraproject.org. In that case, we'll work from the set
> of redesign ideas from FUDCon[3], and in that scenario the links on the
> page actually *reduce* to:
>
> Main page
> |=> I want to do stuff with Fedora
> |=> I want to get Fedora and stuff
> |=> I want to join Fedora
> |=> Legal
> |=> Usage Policy
> \=> Trademark Guidelines
>
> Something like that. :)
>
Excellent, I'd like to get this out there soon so that it can be google
indexed and such before the release. I think initially we may want to
reference the wiki directly. Just because so many have come to know
it. I think just about everyone will be happy with a fresh minimal
landing page for Fedora though.
-Mike
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