Tweaking the design of the wiki

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 09:36 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> > O/H Thomas Chung έγραψε:
> >> On 11/19/06, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris at glezos.com> wrote:
> >>> I've made some CSS/foo for the wiki. Here are some screenshots:
> >>>
> >>>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DimitrisGlezos/WikiDesignTuning
> >> I like the new design. You have my vote.
> > 
> > Thanks Thomas.
> > 
> > Since no-one had any objections, maybe we should go forward with this.
> 
> For what it's worth, I think these proposed modifications look fabulous! 
> It's very clean and makes the level of hierarchy each piece of 
> information is in on the page much more clearer.

+1.  Nice, simple, understated, but very clear to the eye.  Great job
Dimitris!

> One additional thing I would suggest - if you can do it and think it is 
> a good idea - is to add a spot in the right nav on the wiki for little 
> banners to advertise Fedora subprojects and events, etc. This is 
> something we had talked about on the marketing list I think a long time 
> ago - http://people.redhat.com/duffy/misc/fedoramentor-banner.png 
> (although might be better on the top).

+1 again.  That would help give the Mentors program a much-needed kick
in the hindparts.  I've observed lots of willingness but very little
connectivity to the community; with the number of daily hits on our
wiki, surely this would result in an increase of activity.

> > Here is an action plan:
> > 
> >  1. Make some further improvements and upload an HTML version (22/11)
> > 
> >  2. Get some test/feedback from `fedora-websites-list` members (24/11)
> 
> If you want to do a formal usability test let me know and I can help out 
> with that. I'll be on vacation these 22/11 - 26/11 so I'll have time! :)
> 
> Thanks for taking charge on this Dimitris! We've needed this for a long 
> time. :)

Maybe Dimitris could also lead an overhaul on the front page! ;-)

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