All,
Please check out my alternate home page here:
http://beta.pwg.org/dynamo/index2.php
On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> Bill,
>> Thanks for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated!
>> On Sep 5, 2014, at 3:43 PM, William A Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Thanks Michael,
>>>> We appreciate the work that went into this, but you asked for
>> comments...Initial comments after a quick look.
>> 1. I make no claim to have aesthetics capability but the home page seems
>> very dull visually. Perhaps at least the full PWG logo should be there. The
>> "Our Members" statement might be better fixed, with important new
>> announcements on the shifting panel.
>> I had thought about that; will see what I can come up with, but my gut says we need to keep the shifting panel front-and-center. Maybe put the PWG intro content first (with the PWG logo) followed by the important announcements?
>> I can also drop the title text on the home page so we can highlight the panel better.
>> I'll post a test page to show some possible variations.
>>> Members may be able to navigate OK but
>> I wonder about people just looking up the site to find something.
>> Based on the server logs, the following are the 10 most popular (exit) pages last month:
>> Top 10 of 7464 Total Exit Pages
> # Hits Visits URL
> 1 12703 3.83% 5175 18.90% /
> 2 5736 1.73% 4956 18.10% /xhtml-print/HTML-Version/XHTML-Print.html
> 3 2843 0.86% 1782 6.51% /ipp/
> 4 2055 0.62% 551 2.01% /xhtml-print/HTML-Version/CSS-Print.html
> 5 2435 0.73% 331 1.21% /chair/meeting-info/august_2014_toronto.html
> 6 2253 0.68% 218 0.80% /standards.html
> 7 381 0.11% 127 0.46% /ipp/everywhere.html
> 8 753 0.23% 107 0.39% /dynamo/login.php
> 9 142 0.04% 102 0.37% /archives/pwg-announce/2009/002712.html
> 10 207 0.06% 98 0.36% /ipp/faq.html
>> And of the search strings used to get to pwg.org, 9 of the top 20 search strings have "ipp" or "everywhere" in them.
>> That would lead me to believe that we want links to the Standards and IPP Everywhere pages on the home page, perhaps with short blurbs. I'll come up with something.
>>> Indeed, if
>> I wanted to report a spec problem, it is not even clear that I could.
>> Once you get on the standard page, there is a button to "report an issue" under every spec. So maybe if we have that link to the standards on the home page it will be more obvious.
>>> Nor is
>> it apparent that one could register to log-in as a non-member.
>> I can add some words about this on the login and new account pages; however, based on past experience with the wiki we will get a lot of non-members signing up.
>>> 2. In this vein, if we anticipate potential users going to check for IPP
>> Everywhere printers (or even members checking on certification procedures),
>> I suggest that IPP Everywhere get top level in the navigation bar at the
>> top, rather than being buried in Our Work.
>> The number of links can become unmanageable quickly, and in fact I used to have separate "publications" and "technologies" pull-downs but found that on tablet screens and smaller browser windows the nav bar became unusable.
>> But if we have IPP Everywhere listed on the main home page we should handle the casual user access.
>>> 3. Logon works OK, even recovering from lost passwords. But I am not quite
>> sure what Manage Documents is supposed to be used for.
>> Right now it is mainly for published documents, but I set it up so that editors can upload their new working drafts through the web site (still goes to the usual FTP directories, you just don't need to be able to use ftp directly, which has been a problem for me in the past...)
>>> 4. Should Profile roles include workgroup officer positions? Does the role
>> impact what capabilities the users has on the site?
>> Roles do indeed reflect if you are a workgroup officer, although right now we don't have users for all of the officers so I haven't assigned them to the workgroups (which are also in the database...)
>> Officers can currently post short articles to the home page and manage documents (published or otherwise).
>>> 5. The MIB RFCs reference readers to the Printer MIB and Finisher MIB
>> Page at the PWG website. I suspect that there are no questions anymore. But
>> just in case, perhaps WIMS should be listed under a MIBs top heading.
>> WIMS is still listed under the Workgroups page and on the "about the pwg" page.
>> I could add links/boxes on the home page, e.g.:
>> +----------------------------------------------------------+
> | |
> | Main Panel content |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> +----------------------------------------------------------+
>> Standards IPP Everywhere PWG Semantic Model SNMP MIBs
>> News
>> The goal would be to keep the main panel and main links under it "above the fold" (which for the web means 'visible without scrolling' for a typical ~1024x768 window)
>>> 6. The links in the WIMS pages are largely wrong or too general. For example
>> RFC links get a 404 response; CIM reference goes to general DMTF page.
>> (These may be old problems - I can fix that stuff when I understand how to
>> modify these pages)
>> Same as before - grab the HTML file from ftp.pwg.org (under the pub/pwg/www/wims directory), edit, and then upload.
>>> 7. The Cloud Imaging WG Charter link is also broken, as I suspect are quite
>> a few more.
>> I'll see if I can run a link checker on the site; the same links will be broken on the current site since they share most of the same content.
>> (and maybe I'll set it up as a weekly cron job that sends a broken link report to this list...)
>>>>>> Bill Wagner
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: website-bounces at pwg.org [mailto:website-bounces at pwg.org] On Behalf Of
>> Michael Sweet
>> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 1:18 PM
>> To: pwg.org Web Site Development
>> Subject: [pwg.org] beta.pwg.org is now feature complete
>>>> All,
>>>> The new PWG web site at:
>>>>http://beta.pwg.org>>>> is now "feature complete" with all outstanding tasks and issues addressed. I
>> will be presenting the site to the PWG Steering Committee next Thursday
>> (September 11) for approval.
>>>> Please try out the new site and let me know of any issues you find ASAP.
>>>> Thanks!
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