[Compcomm] Organising the new web home

[Mike Dransfield]

Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen wrote:
> I might be in way over my head here. I'm not a developer, I'm an
> active and heavy user, that would like to see some progress on the
> overall merge. And, judging by the last couple of days, there seems to
> be a positive atmosphere here, so I throw my 2 cents in.
>   

Its good to see people pushing things forward :)

> I think that [subdomain.compiz.org] is a great idea. Strong, marketing
> directed at the actual core of this project.
>   

I think most people agree with this too.

> As a user, I'm overwhelmed by the amount of composite-dependant eye
> candy out there, and I'd like to propose a structure like this:
>
> dock.compiz.org (for info on the Compiz-dependant docks, AWN,
> Gnome-dock, Kiba-dock, etc)
> widget.compiz.org (for info on Screenlets, etc)
> dev.compiz.org (collected developer documentation for e.g. people
> wanting to create their own Compiz-dependant app)
> etc...
>   

These sound like good ideas, I have added a 'Community
Sub Projects' category to forum.compiz.org, please can you
post each of these in a separate thread and add any other
thoughts you have.  People can then comment and add any
extra ideas.

By Monday/Tuesday we should have a good list of initial
ones to start with, we can then pester David for the DNS.

Nobody needs to wait to set up home pages for these, you
can use them to flesh out ideas until the domains are
pointed properly.

I think that its a good guideline that these sub sites should
all have designs that will 'compliment' the main compiz site
and that they should all have at least a link back to the www
homepage.  Too many sites all linked from the main-menu
will disorientate users.  The only other option would be to
link them from a separate page, but I'd like to build up the
list of tabs across the top of www.compiz.org.


> All subdomains have their main section in the forums, hosted on
> compiz.org. (Making Beryl-users switch should be easy enough, as long
> as it will be permanent)
>
> If not all app-authors are up for this, so be it, but the idea is
> still to have some info on different types of eye candy (getting tired
> of that word :)). Doing this as a wiki could make this possible.
>
> My reason for asking this is, as opposed to now, I think that really
> consolidating on one place would be beneficial to app authors, compiz
> devs and users that won't have to stumble across stuff through Google
> or random forum threads.
>   

I agree, the random stumble factor will help everyone.

> - Ketil
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