Re: [Gnumed-devel] Web Site

[Tony Lembke]

(Ian Haywood)
> > My only nitpick is the FAQs: the text appears as one huge paragraph, 
> > although its formatted properly when you click on
> > "More..." This text is the summary, just far too long, is there any 
> > way to shorten it?
I have fixed up the FAQ page.
> >
(David Grant)
> I agree.
Hang on, David : ), I'm confused.  The complaint above was that there 
is too much of an article on the index page, which should be shortened 
in a summary. You can't at the same time suggest we have one large file 
with the whole article :)
> I also think there is an overuse of these "...more..." things all over 
> the site.  I don't think this is a great UI technique, and involves 
> too much clicking.

> I'd rather just see either everything in one HTML file, or a bunch of 
> hyperlinks linking to the individual things (news, FAQ) not this 
> "...more..." thing.
Actually, I disagree. Jacob Nielsen is fairly adamant in his guidelines 
that the correct way to have a news index on a home page is to have the 
headlines and a short precis with a 'more... ' link so that users can 
know what they will get when they click on a link.  When we get more 
contributors to News : ) it will be impractical to have one long 
page,although with the current system it is certainly easy to have all 
the news on one page.

> I'd also really like to see a phpbb (http://www.phpbb.com) forums 
> system instead of the current forums.  It could be customized to our 
> current colour scheme.  It's probably fairly easy to install.  
> Features that I like are, ability to see headers only be default, and 
> ability to receive emails when someone replies to a thread you are 
> watching, and many more...

Currently, there is the ability to allow user comments to be posted at 
the bottom of each article. You can subscribe to this so that you will 
be notified by email if someone else posts a comment - and you can 
reply to their comment by email and it will be posted on the web page. 
The author of a page selects whether this Discussion opportunity is 
enabled or not by simply checking a checkbox when he adds the page to 
the Wiki. One advantage of this that any comments posted are 
automatically included in the main site index and are therefore 
searchable.

This system is really designed for annotating pages rather than as a 
stand alone forum, and I could add phpbb if desired. It may be unwise 
to add a forum if there are not many postings and the development team 
do not check regularly as it all can look rather empty.



Regards,

Tony