Re: trying to finish up

Posted by Michael Lenczner on Mar 26, 2006; 5:07am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/trying-to-finish-up-tp374p376.html

that's not negative.  that's feedback.

On 3/25/06, Daniel Haran <[hidden email]> wrote:

> 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?
>

i think we're saying the same thing here.  so the "website" would
temporarily be a one page summary.  and there will be a link from the
summary to the wiki.

in time, the single website page could turn into a blog - if someone
was interested in taking that on.

or am I misunderstanding you?

> 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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