[Marketing] Static+wiki website integration problems to be fixed before Monday - urgent

[David Farning]

The short coming on aslo are on my todo list.  But _someone_ has me
locked up in a coffee shop writing an article for OLPCnews:)

david

2009/3/15 Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ivan Krstić
> <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> On Mar 14, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>
>>> * The new homepage (sometimes called the "static site") should be
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org. It should *not* be http://sugarlabs.org.
>>> http requests to that address should land on http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>> Done.
>>
>>> We had also agreed that its URL (and indeed all
>>> those of the wiki part) would become http://wiki.sugarlabs.org
>>
>> Done. All wiki content has moved to that subdomain, and all current wiki
>> links have been repointed there with 301 permanent redirects, which Google
>> will pick up on the next reindexing.
>>
>>> * On http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page, there is a link called Home in
>>> the green menu bar, it links to http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs. It
>>> should link to the homepage instead (http://www.sugarlabs.org)
>>
>> It turns out this is tricky. That 'home' link is actually part of a template
>> used by all the team pages, so if I repoint it at the static site, we'll
>> screw up navigation in team pages.
>>
>> What I've done for the moment:
>>
>> 1. Added a separate 'Official Sugar Labs site' link to the
>>   green top bar, which is now visible on all team pages
>>   including the home page.
>> 2. Added a sentence to the bottom of the home page green
>>   box that reads "You are currently browsing the Sugar Labs
>>   community wiki. To learn more about Sugar, please also
>>   visit the official Sugar Labs website". The last three
>>   words link to the static site.
>>
>> Please advise if you want this handled differently.
>
> OK thanks Ivan this is much better already, peope lost in the wiki
> will be able to find the static intro.
>
> But, since the wiki is just as official a part of the site as the
> introduction, and any first-time visitor will consider
> anything.sugarlabs.org as being "the Sugar Labs site" and not separate
> sites, can we change "Home" to "Wiki Home", and "Official Sugar Labs
> website" to "Homepage"?
>
> The "You are currently browsing..." is good but should be right at the
> top instead - welcoming to the wiki and showing the path to the main
> homepage. The explanation text is less necessary now since the static
> part of the site covers that.
>
> I have just realized that activities.sugarlabs.org has no navigation
> back to the main page, how can we fix that quickly?
>
> I also agree a common navbar at the top will greatly aid navigation
> (in fact i feel sure i stated this previously). for example "add-ons"
> (static) <> "activities" (wiki) and indeed the static Activities page
> doesn't link to activities;sugarlabs.org as it should
>
> In the first mail i had mentioned text spidered by Google we needed to
> update... does anyone know where the mystery text is, and how to
> update it?
>
> Please advise thanks
>
> Sean
>
>>
>> This now resolves all the items from my todo list, and all that I believe I
>> can help with. Let me know if you have further questions or anything else
>> you need doing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
>>
>>
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