• Zope.org Redux

Let's get the content in order

from Martin Aspeli on Mar 30, 2008 11:11 AM
Hi guys,

I'm still hopeful that Philipp will find some time this weekend to help 
flesh out content, but in the meantime, I wanted to ask a few questions. 
I think our next goal needs to be to publish this to the community. The 
site is looking great, and editing content is nice and simple. If we can 
get the skeleton content in place, we can farm out provision of other 
content to other people and gain some wide community support.

Here's what I think we should do:

  1. Agree on the exact names and order of sections

  2. Agree on the purpose of each section

  3. Get a succinct statement of "what is Zope" and how do the various 
bits fit together (the Venn diagram)

  4. Create a skeleton that includes space for sub-projects (Grok, CMF, 
Zope 2 etc)

  5. Get Oliver and Denis to do a style review and maybe tidy up some of 
the CSS used for content

  6. Let others lose on it!

I think we should get 1-4 done this week; it's not a lot of work.

To get the ball rolling, I'd like to suggest a change to the top-level 
folder structure (the main tabs).

Currently, the sections read "home", "get", "taste", "learn", 
"community" and "foundation". I think this is a bit out of sync with the 
last wireframes. Here's what I would suggest we have:

    - Home: Front page, mostly marketing speak

    - Get: Download instructions for grokproject; a sub-page shows a 
zopeproject installation; another sub-page shows Zope 2 and CMF downloads

    - Taste: Some "interesting" code examples, screenshots and/or 
screencasts that make people excited about "the Zope way".

    - Projects: This page contains the venn diagram with some text about 
how the various sub-projects fit together. We then have a sub-folder for 
each sub-project where we have a standard set of headings: Get, Learn 
and Community. For some, it may just be a link (i.e. for Grok)

    - Community: Provides links to the various mailing lists and chat rooms

    - Foundation: Links to the Foundation web site (can be integrated later)

The obvious casualty here is "Learn", which basically becomes a feature 
of each project. I think this makes sense, since the "Learn" for Grok is 
quite a bit different to the "Learn" for CMF, say.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Martin
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