From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43434 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Reorganization of the main page Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:56 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810808270955v15b01619ye2d2d2accf9d728f@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810808270122h7d2b41d9y94d7e83d116cd427@mail.gmail.com> <326847810808270333p384a5773ge98a91baafc1a9fb@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0646984502==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219856279 26048 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2008 16:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:57:59 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 27 18:58:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYOM4-0000a2-CF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:58:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217171FDED; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:57:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14739-03-3; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C231FBC5; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15F31FBC5 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13681-01-9 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.147]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474B61FB8C for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 21so467944eyc.38 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.43.11 with SMTP id q11mr151683ebq.199.1219856156994; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.16.2 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43434 Archived-At: --===============0646984502== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_18739_20568222.1219856157004" ------=_Part_18739_20568222.1219856157004 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > > Reference of what ? > > of all commands. It is better then texshow(-web). Other suggestions? Then "commands reference", instead of "reference". >>> - live context -> Try out ConTeXt online > >>> - download -> Download the ConTeXt application > >>> - download area -> Download examples, 3rd party modules, articles, > > MyWay reports, ... > > Way too long to fit into the left box! Make the box wider and/or spread the text over more than one line. If impossible, wiki also sucks regarding this feature. ;O) > Some other ideas... > > > > - A clearly visible (colored ?) banner or link on top of the main page > > saying something like "If you're new to ConTeXt, click here to get > started > > fast..." which redirects to the main page "Getting Started section" might > be > > useful. > > See Aditya's suggestion. Would this be OK? The only way to know is to test it and observe whether newbies ask questions or complain, then adapt if required. Best, Alan ------=_Part_18739_20568222.1219856157004 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Patrick Gundlach <patrick@gundla.ch> wrote:

> Reference of what ?

of all commands. It is better then texshow(-web). Other suggestions?

Then "commands reference", instead of "reference".

>>> - live context  -> Try out ConTeXt online
>>> - download     -> Download the ConTeXt application
>>> - download area   ->  Download examples, 3rd party modules, articles,
> MyWay reports, ...

Way too long to fit into the left box!

Make the box wider and/or spread the text over more than one line.

If impossible, wiki also sucks regarding this feature.  ;O)

> Some other ideas...
>
> - A clearly visible (colored ?) banner or link on top of the main page
> saying something like "If you're new to ConTeXt, click here to get started
> fast..." which redirects to the main page "Getting Started section" might be
> useful.

See Aditya's suggestion. Would this be OK?

The only way to know is to test it and observe whether newbies ask questions or complain,
then adapt if required.

Best,
Alan

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