[Qgis-community-team] website structure

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 27-08-13 23:55, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Eva at OpenGeo has drafted some wireframe ideas for the new site. I
> think they should do the trick for now, but curious to hear everyone
> else's feedback.
>
> http://dev.opengeo.org/~jjohnson/qgis_splash_page.pdf
> http://dev.opengeo.org/~jjohnson/qgis_template_page.pdf
>
> Jeff

This is a nice start!

I'm not familiar with what a wireframe would exactly serve for, but I 
was hoping for a little simpler interface. One which would mimic the 
brainstormed infrastructure like: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97361298@N07/9603909791/
What we most need, I think is both a 'information design' and a 'graphic 
design'.

My view: only 3 entrances from the flick picture: discover, use, get 
involved (looking to eg geonode.org), with or without those 3 entrances 
in a menu.

Preferably, those 3 entrances, or that topbar can also be used for all 
our other sites: issues, wiki, plugins etc etc

Going into that entrance you com on a second landing page, which 
prefereably is also simple, and will guide you to either the right part 
of our website, OR to a separate site like github or wiki (a third level 
could be nessecary).

Thereby both guiding the viewer into our site structure (which can be a 
little overwhelming) AND to force us to keep our information ALSO structure.

And do we still want a responsive design, or is that only for the docs?

Because a menu with more then 5 items does not fit in the bootstrap 
themes (we will end up with more then 5 items in a menu, I'm sure. That 
is why I prefer to have no menus)

Regards,

Richard