Hi Caty,
On Apr 10, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote:
Hi devs,
I've made a proposal with some suggestions on what we can change on the
Homepage.
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/HomepageContent
The proposal is divided in Homepage Content improvements and Dashboard
improvements (that still need some work).
The Homepage improvements contains things like:
- Improved Welcome message (a link to the Getting Started guide has already
been added)
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/HomepageConten…
You can see this in action on
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
This proposal would imply adding other 3 external links to:
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/DocumentLifecycle
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Index+Application
IMO these documentation pages contain valuable information and would also
educate the user on how to make use of
xwiki.org.
- Implement mechanism to hide technical content (in progress by JV)
- Simplify the 'Tags' section initial text
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7678
- Separate Message Stream input from Activity Stream
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7679
The Dashboard improvements contains:
- Improve gadget's container styling in INLINE mode to better suggest
dragging and delimitation
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7681
Please share your thoughts about these ideas.
Thanks for your work.
Some comments:
- I find this proposal not revolutionary enough. It's too much like before IMO and
only marginally better. I'd love to see a proposal from you starting from a blank
slate… ;)
- I think it's hard to see the different areas visually.
- It looks crowded in general, even more with the new vertical columns.
I think we need a bit less information on the home page and better L&F, especially for
the Activity Stream.
Thanks
-Vincent