Suggestion for new Yelp front page

[Don Scorgie]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:38 +0200, Andreas Lloyd wrote:
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> 
> Another issue is that it requires redoing the Yelp frontpage completely,
> rather than relying on Yelp's auto-generated front page. Matt assures me
> that this is not too complicated.

Very much depends on the extent of the changes.  I believe Matt's change
would basically add a new document and then modify the help menu item
(in the System menu) to point to that doc by default.  The document
would then point to yelp's own table-o-contents for different sections
as needed. [1]

For changes like Dapper (where Ubuntu docs were given priority in the
listings) is again relatively easy to do.

Redoing the front page completely is a different matter.  It may be
quite a lot of work.  Plus, each table-o-content page is generated from
the same template, so any change to the front page would be propagated
through all the sections.

If you could create a mock-up (either in html or as a simple image
showing what goes where), I could (possibly) give you an idea of whether
it's feasible.

Just to give you something to think about
Don


[1] At least, that's how I read it
[2] For those that haven't seen the current new yelp TOC, there is a
screenie (sans Ubuntu docs) at:
http://donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/yelp-new-toc.png