Re: Wiki - Proposal to update the Welcome page

[Garulfo <garulfo@azules.eu>]

>> 1/ Concerning the Manuals Page
>>    - As proposed, "obsolete banners" are added to thumbnails  of the
>>      oldest manuals.
> Looks good. A few minor comments:
> I haven't tested it, but the natural tables in context examples (in 
> Sec 3.6) should still work with latest versions.
> The "context rehab for amsmath addicts" should be in math (or 
> sciences) rather than tables. (This reminds me, I should update that 
> reference).

Both corrections are made, thanks for your help.


>>    - About providing zips of manuals per topics: maybe we could just
>>      add a index.html in the distribution structure, to provide the
>>      user with a browsing system similar to the wiki's one.
>>    - If the admistrators wish, I can now replace the current page.
>
> One concern that I have is how easy it is to navigate the page on the 
> phone. Currently, it does not really work on the phone. Is there some 
> way to make it more responsive?

Thanks again, of primary importance.

Should be far better now (quickly checked on two smartphones, one 
android and one ios)


>> 2/ After  the Manuals,  please find a proposal for the Welcome Page,
>>    which is probably trickier
>>    - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page_TempProposal
>>    - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page (the current)
>>    - 4 objectives :
>>     1/ do something more visual, reduce the amount of text,
> Some of us prefer text. What was earlier a one step process for me (go 
> to home page, search for keyword, go to page), is now a two step 
> process. But I agree that the new proposed layout is more friendly to 
> new users and support it.

Yes, I suspected that the current version had advantages as a result of 
past iterations.

It would be interesting to identify the links that people want to access 
in one step. We can list them in 
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Talk:Main_Page_TempProposal, and I will 
try to find ways to integrate them.


>>     2/ provide a fairly comprehensive overview with less than 15
>>            topics,
>>         3/ but hold in one (big) screen,
> This looks more reasonable on the phone. The 2nd half of the page 
> looks okay, but the first half still looks weird (too narrow and long 
> columns). Perhaps there is a way to may it a bit more responsive on 
> the phone.

See above, should be far better now.


>>     4/ avoid redundancies on the Welcome Page,
>>     5/ match both the Wiki's structure & the Manuals' structure.
>>
>> Again, depending on  your feedbacks, I would be happy to improve it.
>>
>> It's built from scripts  ==>  not too hard now to reorder, to adapt.
> You should also document your work flow somewhere (perhaps the talk 
> page of the same page or a dedicated page on the wiki). That is useful 
> for long term maintainability of the wiki.

Done: two zip files are uploaded, with link and brief description in the 
Talk zone of the respective pages.


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