[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-web-team] Changes to Primary Nav on Evergreen-ILS.org

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Thanks, Ben.  Yes, let's discuss tomorrow.  My thought was this would be
 brand spankin' new page so we can come up with the layout and language for
it tomorrow.  Obviously, the expectation is that it will evolve organically
once we get it started.

Lori




On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:

>  Hi Lori,
>
> One small problem:
>
> It'll be easy enough to create an additional drop down menu choice for
> "User/Regional Groups" under the current menu options, but we do not seem
> to have an end point to direct that link to in any of the email
> correspondence so far.  I found on the dokuwiki, this page for
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=user_groups , but it could
> probably use some editing first before it could be used as a landing page
> for people looking to find / create their own user groups.  Alternatively,
> if the "User/Regional Groups" page is actually intended to be an entirely
> brand new page that will become a static part of the website, then we will
> also need wording, etc. to create that.
>
> To clarify for others who've asked, the original message thread containing
> some of the proposed changes for the navigation bar originated with these
> messages:  http://markmail.org/message/mc3ymptwo7ivw4ia
>
> Since there's a scheduled web team meeting tomorrow, maybe we can discuss
> some of the necessary steps to move forward then?
>
> -- Ben
>
>
> On 05/09/2012 12:16 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>
> With the announcement of another Evergreen regional group on the general
> mailing list, I'm inspired to nag about some changes we agreed to make to
> the primary navigation on evergreen-ils.org in order to clarify some
> things and make room for these regional groups to live.  We agreed (several
> weeks ago) that the "Communicate" menu should be changed to "Community" and
> the items under that menu would include:
>
>
>
> *Community *
>
>
>
> Chat
>
> Mailing Lists
>
> Official Blog
>
> Community Blogs
>
> User Groups (should be call this Regional/User Groups?)
>
> Calendar
>
>
>
> *
> *
>
>  We also made some changes to the items under 'Contribute' as follows:
>
>
>   *Contribute*
>
>
>
> Develop Code
>
> Report Bugs
>  Donate to Evergreen
>
> Committees and Working Groups
>
> Request Feature
>
>
>  As I recall, the idea of changing things around this way ended up being
> a bit more complicated that one might have first thought (per Ben Shum's
> investigation into the issue).  Recognizing that problem, I'd like to hear
> what we could do to at least move the idea forward a baby step.
>
>
>  Could we add "User/Regional Groups" to the dropdown menu now labelled
> "Communicate" without causing any trouble?
>
>
>  Could we remove the RSCEL link under Quick Links after that?
>
>
>  And then, as possible, could someone identify what it would take to
> rename "Communicate" to "Community"?  Maybe some of us can help with the
> content moves that will be required.
>
>
>  Lori
>
>
>
>
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