[Evergreen-web-team] nice example of a project website - Greenstone notes

[Jim Craner]

Hi all,

I have a couple of comments on the Greenstone project site; thanks for bringing that to our attention, Lori!

* Their blog is *really* developer-focused; I think it would be awesome to have more "news" stuff from the 
developer trenches but the developers are usually really busy developing so that's understandable. 

* Their site is an example of what I mentioned earlier this week: open source projects that just use the 
"wiki" part of their site as THE documentation.  Greenstone's Wiki has a section for "manuals" as well as 
one for "tutorials" and one just for "documentation" which seems to be their "miscellaneous" dumping 
ground for stuff that doesn't belong in a formal manual or tutorial.

* Could you elaborate on "the way they organize their information" comment?  As in, you like their layout 
or their actual information architecture?  

Thanks,
Jim


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
>  To: Evergreen Community Web Team Email List <evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>  Subject: [Evergreen-web-team] nice example of a project website
>  Sent: 15 Jun '11 08:35
>  
>  Hi All,
>  
>  
>  I just ran across a nice example of a library open source project website.
>   I think it might give us some good ideas. 
>  
>  
>  See [LINK: http://www.greenstone.org/] http://www.greenstone.org/.
>  
>  
>  In particular, I was appreciating how they did the FAQ page on their wiki:
>  [LINK: http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Greenstone_FAQ]
>  http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Greenstone_FAQ
>  
>  
>  I also appreciated how they organize the information on their main web page
>  versus the blog and the wiki.  It doesn't feel jumbled to me.
>  
>  
>  Makes me want to mock up the Evergreen site using their site as a model....
>  
>  
>  Lori
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