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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:34:55PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> Quoting Johan Jansson <jjan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > > Hey Anders,
> > >
> > > So I like the general look and feel for the page, but I think right now
> > > it has a lot of info and is probably hard for a new person to discern
> > > which information is important to read.  For example the news banner
> > > takes up about 1/3 of the page, it's important for users but they are
> > > probably getting that info through a mailing list already.
> > >
> > > Some suggestions I would make are to either 1) move to a three column
> > > page with the middle being the largest (such as http://www.scipy.org/)
> > > or 2) combine all the links and make them drop down (for example have a
> > > link docs which has (about, contact, wiki, and gallery))  then you could
> > > have more room for links on the main link bar.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andy
> > >
> > > Anders Logg wrote:
> > >> I have experimented with the web page:
> > >>
> > >>     http://www.fenics.org/
> > >>
> > >> I wanted to add visible links to the wiki, the repositories and
> > >> bugzilla, but I'm not perfectly happy with the way it turned out (it
> > >> looks ugly).
> > >>
> > >> Any suggestions or opinions? For example, do we want to keep the
> > >> orange theme for the buttons and links? (It looks a little pale.)
> > >>
> > >> /Anders
> > >>
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> > >
> > 
> > The links on the left seem redundant. Why not put all of them at the top
> > and make them a bit smaller? Or combine them into drop-down menus like
> > Andy is suggesting.
> > 
> > Another suggestion is to do the whole site as a Wiki (like the SciPy
> > site). Then you lower the threshold for people to participate in adding
> > things.
> >
> 
> I like the look of the SciPy site, and the easier it is to add things the better.
> 
> Garth

ok, let's get started immediately...

Unless there is a strong preference for MoinMoin over MediaWiki, 
we can just start editing our existing Wiki at

    http://www.fenics.org/wiki/

Once we're happy, we can just map the address over to the main
page http://www.fenics.org/.

/Anders