| Revamping the web site (issue #3000) |
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| First: anyone should feel free to hack on this branch at any time, no |
| need to ask first. Whoever you are, you're not likely to mess up some |
| grand plan or be a worse web designer than I am. |
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| The plan is to vastly simplify the front page, focusing on today's |
| visitors' likely priorities. Our web site was originally designed to |
| attract developers -- but that was long ago, and now most visitors are |
| users. Much of the current front-page content will be relegated to |
| deeper pages. Finding the common downloads needs to be *much* easier. |
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| Once the front page sets the right tone, we can dig deeper and improve |
| inner pages along the same lines. |
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| The front page will still start out with the logo, and beneath that |
| will be five main boxes. Each box will have just the most important |
| information for its topic, and then link out to the more detailed |
| stuff that most users don't care about. The boxes will be list-style, |
| not paragraph-style, except for the first one (which gives a brief |
| summary of what Subversion is). |
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| | _______________________________________ | |
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| | | LOGO | | |
| | |_______________________________________| | |
| | | |
| | _________________________________________________________ | |
| | | WHAT | | |
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| | | *brief* desc of what SVN is; link to more detailed page | | |
| | |_________________________________________________________| | |
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| | ___________________________ ___________________________ | |
| | | WANT | | HELP | | |
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| | | prime download links, and | | book, faq, irc, users@, | | |
| | | link to page with more | | commercial support, etc | | |
| | |___________________________| |___________________________| | |
| | | |
| | ___________________________ ___________________________ | |
| | | COMPLAIN | | DEVELOPMENT | | |
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| | | where/how to report a bug | | source code, dev page, | | |
| | | | | dev@: how to get involved | | |
| | |___________________________| |___________________________| | |
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