[Bug 19182] New: Improve the info architecture for the major landing pages

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19182

           Summary: Improve the info architecture for the major landing
                    pages
           Product: webplatform.org
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: MacOS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: info architecture
        AssignedTo: schepers@w3.org
        ReportedBy: k7glim@gmail.com
         QAContact: public-webplatform-bugs@w3.org


A proposal for different info architecture for the main landing pages.

Issue 1: The main page (http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page) currently
has double links for the same technologies; for example, there's a tutorial
landing page and a reference landing page for HTML and CSS (JavaScript is
inconsistent in that there is just a link to the reference, and no tutorial). 

Proposal: 
Collapse the two links to just one. This cleans up the page and presents fewer
options that the user needs to skim through. 

Issue 2: For the technology main pages, such as CSS
(http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/CSS), create just one landing page, instead
of two. 

Proposal: The way MDN does it is elegant:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS. There's a main landing page
(everything CSS!) with forks to landing pages: references, tutorials and demo.
As a writer and user of this page, I prefer this solution. 

MDN's info architecture enables people to send out the main CSS URL to cover
all things CSS. But WPD's main CSS page (http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/CSS)
is just the reference part of CSS.

Issue 3: The reference page adds an additional layer of links that you have to
click through.

Proposal: Why add another layer of index (http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/CSS
-> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/CSS/Properties), when you can list the
index in the main CSS Reference page
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/CSS_Reference)?

The nice thing with WPD is that properties and selectors are categorized.

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Received on Monday, 1 October 2012 22:27:55 UTC