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2005-07-13

I have upgraded to pmwiki 2.0.beta47 today, and things seems to work properly.

2005-04-19

Switched off automatic linking of WikiWords. This to simplify things: only one way to make a link by using double square brackets [[page name]]

Web site bugs

Google ads

On IE6 at work, there are 5-6 pixels of space between the right side of the skyscraper ad and the border surrounding it.

I had problems with google ads in mozilla -> it turns out my 'minimal font size' was set too high. I set it to 9 or so; now google ads look fine - Tom e.

Logo

Internet explorer does not make the image background transparent. Maybe it can handle a .gif image better? I have to test. Also, the logo text should be different for the website and the wiki. Btw, the logo is not visible now...

Design draft

• One big ad on a place where people look.
• Make people learn about the wiki and what a wiki is.
• Few choices on the menu for the front page www.solfege.org. This to increase the chanse that Joe Random Visior click where I want him to click.

The overall goal of the front page is to:

• Tell people what solfege is.
• Let people download Solfege
• Let people know that they can easily contribute to the project.

First I thought about just having these menu entries:

• Download
• Get involved
• Solfege Wiki
• What is a wiki

But also I think we will need a link to the ScreenShots page, and most likely there must be a link somewhere going back to Main/HomePage. Maybe this can be done by making the front page (Main/HomePage) be more like a "news" page with a paragraph or two about the latest changes, and have a News entry on top of the menu.

Anyway, so few links is quite a radical change, so I'll leave the list of wiki links.

Suggestion by tom e.: (still very under construction) I think editable and non-editable webpages don't need to be separated in the menu. The site visitor should find information sorted in content categories (about solfege - get started - get involved) in stead of techical categories (wiki - no wiki). The visitor will understand that not every page is open for editing.

Tom E, the Faq and release notes are wiki pages now, and I think they should continue to be so. Main.Download, Main.Contribute, Main.Irc and Main.MailingLists are non-editable mostly for historical reasons. In fact, I think very few pages really has to be non-editable. At least as long as someone is looking after the pages every other day. TomCato

(w) means editable in wiki

• About Solfege: what is solfege
  • (w) screenshots
  • (w) Faq
  • (w) Eartraining
• Get started
  • Download
  • (w) setup (as in sound setup)
  • (w) release notes stable - announce mailing list
• Get involved: how to contribute
  • (w partially) Bug reports : TomCato sorts them in these categories: closed, wontfix, open, pending next unstable, todo next stable, todo after next stable. (this merges sits and todolist and releaseplanning. It also can visualize what happens when somebody donates for a specific featuer request.) anybody can add & edit bugs.
  • how to translate
  • (w) user manual
  • devel mailing list
  • (w) discuss the site
  • recent wiki changes
  • wiki howto
• Donate (permanently visible)

Etienne B. : The website is all in english... Could it be possible to access this site using other langages ? I think translating the front page and to have a reduced download page (with only the newest stable and maybe the newest development version ? so it would not be necessary to re-translate each time there is a new version ?) would be sufficient for users not familiar with english ? I think it could give solfege ever more visibility in the web.

Neilen Marais: The website seems very developer focussed. What users would no doubt like is a quick link to the user (not developer) documentation from the front page so they can get a feel for how the software works, and perhaps an extended feature list/explanatation.