[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updated Evergreen web site menus

[Ben Shum]

Neat!  I like this new grouping arrangement so far.

Just a tiny issue that I came across when poking around.  I see that the
Planet Evergreen version of the menu points to some incorrect addresses
(looks like some are set to "planet.evergreen-ils.org" instead of just
"evergreen-ils.org")

-- Ben

On 11/17/2010 10:27 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
> Hey folks:
>
> A few days back I mentioned the events calendar that Jason and I got
> going at http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar (everybody's using it now,
> right?). At the time, I mentioned something about adding the calendar
> to the menu in a more prominent way, by coalescing some of the related
> menu entries together in a drop-down menu format.
>
> So, as of a few minutes ago, I've done that. You'll note the new
> "Communicate" entry, which groups the "Mailing list", "Chat",
> "Calendar", "Official blog", and "Community blogs" entries together.
> The top-level "Communicate" entry itself links to a new page that
> provides the same links with a little more context; good for both
> search indexes and for providing the same amount of access to the
> entries in the drop-down menu for people using screen readers or
> browsers with JavaScript turned off. (You might need to reload the
> page to get the right results if your browser has cached the old CSS).
>
> I also created a "Contribute" entry. The top level links to our
> "Contributing" document that discusses how to, well, contribute to the
> community (focusing on documentation, bug reports, and code at the
> moment, but it could be more). I wanted to add a "Join a committee or
> working group" link under that heading, but we don't have a single
> wiki page that lists all of the Evergreen interest groups, working
> groups, and committees currently that I can link to. Seems like
> something that needs to be created - any volunteers?
>
> Anyway, the menu itself is just a simple nested unordered list with a
> bit of CSS and JavaScript. I took some heat in IRC for using
> JavaScript at all, but a) it works (tested with Chromium, Firefox, and
> IE) and b) the fall-back for non-JavaScript browsers works enough to
> make me comfortable. That said, some people have said they'll try to
> provide a CSS-only implementation, and I'll be happy to switch to that
> if patches come along (web site is all stored in Subversion in
> svn://svn.open-ils.org/ILS-Contrib/evergreen-ils.org for anyone
> interested in contributing).
>
> To be honest, the technology interests me much less than the grouping
> and terminology of the menu headings. Are we emphasizing the right
> things at the top level, and are we providing access to the right
> things underneath those headings - and if not, is it because we just
> don't have the right content, or because we've missed it entirely?
>
> Other candidates for busting out into submenus are the Documentation
> link (to provide direct links to the official docs, the wiki, and the
> "How to contribute" document if we feel like repeating it?), the FAQs
> (to link directly to each of the current FAQs - or move FAQs under
> Documentation?), and the About Us (link to Roadmap, that mythical list
> of all committees/interest/working groups).
>
> Dan
>

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Benjamin Shum
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