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/HomepageContent... 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