Re: to make newbie more comfortable and easier to glance: suggestion on change frontpage of gap

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Zhang.

I occasionally dub as webmaster too. The team of active GAP developers has
shrunk a bit...

I understand what you want to change and appreciate your effort, but it is
confusing to me. I prefer without the descriptions. Furthermore, imagine
when new applications will be added! A real mess! In the future maybe some
kind of categorization will be needed.

The links on the fron tpage need to serve as quick-access to the sub-pages.

If you want a page that acts more of a guide with short descriptions, a page
were a whole "GAP based"  environment setup is descripbed is more
appropriate, so the user can read, pick what he needs and go in to deeper
details.

I also disagree with hiding non-released projects, they are maybe not
dormant, just unreleased. For example the Browser Vespucci had quite some
talk, so it should be correctly represented on the front page.

Actually, some of our projects miss a page and some screenshot, I'll work on
that.

Thanks in any case for your intrest in the GNustep Application Project.
  Riccardo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zhang Weiwu" <zhangweiwu@realss.com>
To: "GNUstep general" <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:21 PM
Subject: to make newbie more comfortable and easier to glance: suggestion on
change frontpage of gap


> I did not find how to contact the webmast in the gap website so I just
> post it here. I'd propose small change on the index page to make it less
> confusing for newbies like me.
>
> What I did is to add short description to alive projects and hide the
> hibernating projects. Maybe there should be a link to a special page
> where all hibernating projects are listed, but they should not be on the
> front page to attract unnecessary attention.
>
> Before:
> http://emerson.realss.com/index.html
> After:
> http://emerson.realss.com/index:1.html
>