From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Launching our new website Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:55:53 +0000 Message-ID: <8439145C-EE38-4E06-844D-5DD3EF092319@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <178D9B0F-56CA-45B1-A4D3-ADAD38E20EA7@rymes.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4981212847441916914==" List-Id: --===============4981212847441916914== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > On 9 Jan 2024, at 16:47, Tom Rymes wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 >> On Jan 9, 2024, at 3:29 AM, Michael Tremer w= rote: >>=20 >> Hello Tom, >>=20 >>> On 8 Jan 2024, at 23:31, Tom Rymes wrote: >>>=20 >>> FWIW, I also think the community sections of the site should be as promin= ent as possible. Users go to the site looking to either download or get suppo= rt. Everything else is probably a rounding error, IMHO. >>=20 >> I agree and it is. It just isn=E2=80=99t part of the main navigation which= is used to its maximum: >>=20 >> >>=20 >> We cannot remove About, Download, Blog and Help because that would bring u= s back to have different pages with different navigations and it would be har= d to switch from one to another. >>=20 >> We cannot remove the Donate button because we are funded by those. >>=20 >> We could find a different place for the avatar, but that would be confusin= g as this is a standard location, and if we found another place, we would not= get enough space to add a Community link. >>=20 >> The only candidate there is is Documentation, but I think Documentation ou= tranks the Community portal. We don=E2=80=99t want people to ask the same que= stions again. We want them to read the documentation. >>=20 >> -Michael >=20 >=20 > Perhaps the =E2=80=9CSearch Documentation=E2=80=9D field could be placed on= the documentation page and not in the header? We tried that and it did not work. We would loose too much space on the actua= l page and distract from the content. Rather unsurprisingly, people don=E2=80=99t use the search that much, and so = it makes sense to have it in the top navigation where pretty much every websi= te has their search boxes. > Tom --===============4981212847441916914==--