Website Content for 2.27/2.28

This page is a draft being discussed in marketing-list.

The wgo structure is designed considering GnomeWeb/WgoScope, GnomeWeb/GnomeSubsites and GnomeWeb/UseCases. Changes in this document imply a revision of GnomeWeb/Navigation and GnomeWeb/LayoutPlanning.

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Site map (May 2009 Marketing Team Recommendation)

Pages in parentheses are delayed for GNOME 2.29 / 2.30.

Top Level Navigation:

About Products Download Support Community Contact

Sitemap with sub-pages:

• About (Index includes project overview, history, mission, desktop, platform)
  • History
  • Foundation
• Products:
  • Desktop (www.gnome.org/desktop)
    • Why GNOME Desktop?
    • (Take the Tour)
      • (Slide 1)
      • (Slide 2)
      • (etc.)
    • (Testimonials)
    • (Deployments) (Success Stories)
  • Platform (www.gnome.org/platform)
    • Why GNOME Platform?
    • (Take the Tour)
      • (Slide 1)
      • (Slide 2)
      • (etc.)
    • (Testimonials)
    • (Users) (Success Stories from GNOME-based product developers)
  • Submit your product (Instructions to encourage developers to bring their products to the GNOME platform - git, mailing lists, etc)
• Download (Index provides overview on the subpages.)
  • Distributions
  • Installation
  • Live Images (torrents.gnome.org)
  • GNOME applications on Microsoft Windows
  • GNOME applications on Mac OS X
  • Latest sources (cgit?) / release notes
• Support (Index provides pointers to End User Documentation, Forum, and Bugzilla and an overview on the subpages.)
  • (For System Administrators)
  • For Developers (get an account via mango, etc)
  • (For Companies - such as commercial support options)
  • (For providers)
• Community (Index provides pointers News, and an overview on the subpages.)
  • User Groups
  • Participate (ie. teams)
  • Friends of GNOME
  • Sponsors
• Contact
  • Press/Media
  • Foundation

Delayed for 2.30

These sections do not have finished content or implementation. They will be worked on during the 2.29 / 2.30 cycle:

• Take the Tour - Picking the idea of http://www.gnome.org/tour/C/index.html and revamping it into a brief and visual introduction. This page contains also links to an official screencast/video and other external overviews i.e. Wikipedia or unofficial screenshots tours.

  • Sequential subpages of the tour to be defined.

• Products - Section generated by the GnomeWeb/GnomeProducts application. This page contains an explanation of desktop components and applications; and explanation of software for users, administrators and developers; an explanation of operative systems supported; the tools to search products.

  • [Product X] - Multiple pages generated by the database featuring a product each. The following indexes link to them.
  • Applications index - Software for users.

  • Windows compatible applications index - See GnomeMarketing/GnomeOnWindows

  • Mac compatible applications index - See GnomeMarketing/GnomeOnWindows

  • Sysadmin index - Software for sysadmins
  • Developer index - Software for developers
  • Desktop index - Index of the desktop components comprehensible to sysadmins and developers.

• Success Stories - Real life people and projects where GNOME is applied, including professional users, companies, deployments, software developers... This page would include indexes by case type and some featured stories. See GnomeWeb/CaseStudies

  • [Use Case X] - Multiple pages of use cases.
  • Share your story - Guidelines for submitting a use case
  • Pulse

Content Guidelines

Those are suggested guidelines to be used when creation, editing, and reviewing content in the new website:

• No pages should allow comments (if you find pages that allow comments, just disable comments in page settings)
• All pages should have a proper description (this is useful when showing items in search results)
• The main feature text in all pages (the intro text with larger font) should not exceed 175 characters (this is to force us to be consistent, succinct, and straight to the point)

Page Comparison (Original plan vs. 2009 update)

This table reflects the first draft of content developed in 2006 / 2007 that might be able to used in the new sitemap recommendation. If there is not content available, new copy will need to be written for that particular page.

Reference

The following GnomeWeb goals aim to produce the material for the sections defined above:

• Original wgo content planning and sitemap recommendation: GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure

• GnomeWeb/WgoGetStarted

• GnomeWeb/WgoGetInvolved

• GnomeWeb/WgoAbout