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

[Dan Scott]

Thanks Ben! I had noticed that too, and fixed the template, but got lazy and was waiting for the hourly cron job to regenerate the page. Nice to know someone looks at the planet :)

"Ben Shum" <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:

>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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