front page for help.ubuntu.com

[Marc K.]

I started making...well...something at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Home/PageDiscussion/Draft

But, a couple of things while working on this:

I was just noticing something regarding the "switching guides".

On the Home page for the community docs, we have:

  * [[SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows|Switching from Windows]]
  * [[SwitchingToUbuntu/FromMacOSX|Switching from Mac OS X]]
  * [[SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux|Switching from another Linux 
distribution]]

Do we want to remove the article "SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows" and set 
it up as a redirect to the guide instead?

Do we have official guides for switching from Mac or Linux?

Until I hear otherwise, I've left the Mac and Linux ones in, but replaced 
the Windows one.

Also, do we want to redirect:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes

The same is true of the Server Guides.

Note: Unless there is a way to set up a macro, these redirects would have 
to be modified with each new version.  That is the only flaw that I can 
see.

Finally, for everyone else, we probably want to consider cleaning up:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp

Marc K.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Dougie Richardson wrote:

> Yes, I'd be interested on working on this, if no-one minds.
> 
> Dougie Richardson (dougie at lynxworks.eu), sent from my Aspire One - excuse
> the msipellings.
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> Sent: 2008/10/25 14:37:09
> Subject: Re:front page for help.ubuntu.com
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The new theme for the system documentation on help.ubuntu.com is
> basically ready I think (example here:
> http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/about-ubuntu/C/index.html).
> 
> When we were designing the theme Phil had the idea of designing a new
> frontpage for help.ubuntu.com which would be more attractive than the
> existing one. Is anyone interested in working on this? It should:
> 
> * use the new theme
> * contain links to the various desktop documents
> * contain links to the server guide and other documents like the
> installation-guide and "switching from windows"
> * contain links to the community documents (help.ubuntu.com/community)
> and documentation for previous versions of Ubuntu (e.g.
> help.ubuntu.com/6.06, 7.10, and 8.04)
> 
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