Posted by
Daniel Haran on
Mar 26, 2006; 4:53am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/trying-to-finish-up-tp374p375.html
Hi Michael,
Sorry to be negative, but you've touched a couple sore spots for me.
Re: splash page. Can we avoid this? Once launched, we should have a
separation between the wiki as a collaborative space and the site as a
public-facing summary. Links should generally be to the summary rather
than content-free pages. Do we have enough consensus on the summary
that we can push it to a non-wiki page?
Re: French/English page. When you go to a website, your browser sends
a message to a computer (e.g. www.civicaccess.ca) that it wants a file
(/wiki/). Your browser lists what languages you are willing to accept,
in order of preference.
In Internet Explorer, you can see the list of languages by going to
Tools -> Internet Options. Click Languages. With Firefox, Tools ->
Options -> Advanced
The vast majority of people have a browser in their language of
choice. I suggest we auto-detect this and forward to the appropriate
language page. Unless of course people explicitly ask for the other
page - and we could emulate the government's style of having the
language link at the top left.
Cheers,
Daniel.
On 3/25/06, Michael Lenczner <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> I know tracey just added some more sections to the site.
>
> on my side:
>
> 1) i think we should keep a splash page before the wiki. that way we
> can at some point set up another cms if we want to.
>
> if we don't keep a splash page then people will link to
>
http://www.civicaccess.ca to go to the wiki. To put a blog in before
> that a year later would mean breaking everyone's links to the wiki.
>
> so we should prevent
http://www.civicaccess.ca from forwarding
> automatically to the wiki.
>
> and 2) we should keep a splash page because many of the people who we
> want to become participants of civicaccess have never seen a wiki
> before and will be kinda shocked with how unprofessional it seems.
> especially because it seems that we're going to have to "go live"
> before we get a nicely organized wiki with lots of content.
>
> Steph - can you put a back a temporary splash page? and maybe you or
> patrick or someone else can do a lightly designed splash page explain
> civicaccess in french + english (link to suggested text below) with a
> link to the wiki?
>
>
http://www.civicaccess.ca/wiki/Launch/SplashPage (suggested text)
>
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