Site redesign

This is the wiki page in support of the website repo, issue #23.

Links

• Site redesign folder on Google Drive.
• Landing page revision draft - new text for our home page.
• Goals document - note the two tabs: business goals and user goals.

Exemplars

Here are a couple of sites that look very nice, that we could consider copying ideas from:

• http://todogroup.org/ - very clean and simple
• http://casrai.org/
• http://credit.casrai.org/

Requirements

Here are things that we want, or might potentially want, on our site.

• About - what is JATS4R? Participating organizations, etc.
• Recommendations - users need quick access to these
• Examples - even better than reading recommendations, would be access to "best practices" examples, indexed by topic, and xml element and attribute names.
• Validator - ditto
• Learning resources - this would be an area of the site dedicated to helping groups get up and running with JATS more easily. See the jats-admin mailing list topic, "Potential topics for XML learning".
  • Question: what form should these take? Blog? How-to articles?
• Blog? News?
• Contact - Info about how to contact us
• Get involved

I'd [Chris Maloney] suggest that each one of these be associated with a very short name, for quick access from the home page. For instance, in our existing home page, there is a list of topics in the left column -- but these names are too long. One of the things I like about Todo is that the list is horizontal (scales well to mobile), and the names are very short and sweet: "Blog", "About", "Join", etc.