Talk:Main Page/main-page-sandbox
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Basically this works by including other pages. Special macros are used to include different pages every day. Example of included page: Gutenberg:Featured Short Story/01-21
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I like the general concept.
Any way this can be done weekly in the PT version?
Suppose we'll have to change the colours. :)
How do we organize the current main page contents (volunteering, etc) this way?
Having short stories in the main page won't make it hard to open in some browsers?
Ricdiogo 19:12, 21 January 2007 (EST)
Roberts design
The Article page shows my ideas about the design. I have changed the introductory sentences to a narrative which does not look so dispersed anymore. It also takes less space without losing information. Then the navigation is placed prominently. The less important links follow. The rest of the page will be reworked soon. The "About Us" section will be split in several tables also.
The whole Wiki section has been banned to a secondary page. It will be integrated into a "Volunteers" table.
Please criticize my design. The look of the tables is not cast in stone. Experiment with other looks.
Robert Marquardt 14:06, 23 January 2007 (EST)
- I guess everything we can find in the left sidebar should be removed from the main page. The horizontal concept can be used for some links but I guess not for all the page. I'd remove the explanation of the links too (my "tease more" theory). Keep developing your idea and we will see how to merge it with Marcello's. Ricdiogo 16:30, 23 January 2007 (EST)
The main page should have four sections. First tell what PG is. That is the narrative at the start. Then navigation follows. The navigation in the sidebar is for all pages. The main page should repeat that and offer more navigation options. The third part is the "About Us" and "Volunteering" section. Last is what we have here Featured books etc. I will experiment with the panes to merge the design (i do like the panes). Afterwards we can rearrange the panes as we like. I think "Navigation" should stay a 100% pane whereas "Fresh Material" and "Special Areas" could go side by side with a column of links. When we have agreed on how a pane should look like then Marcello can add it as a "gutentable" style to the CSS files. It then can be reused for the jump boxes so it spreads to the other pages also. Currently it looks too much like the standard wiki design.
Robert Marquardt 02:23, 24 January 2007 (EST)
- Always mind people using 800x600 screen resolution. Ricdiogo 13:55, 25 January 2007 (EST)
I do by once in a while resizing the browser window to roughly half the size of my 1600x1200 screen. Robert Marquardt 14:23, 25 January 2007 (EST)
Advert
Is advertising really possible for PG (tax exempt status)? Is advertising desirable for PG? If so then best only ask a limited set of companies related to ebooks like Mobipocket. Robert Marquardt 13:49, 25 January 2007 (EST)
- The idea must be to advert things like Distributed Proofreaders and other non-profit organizations. "Also watch..." would probably be a better heading. Ricdiogo 13:52, 25 January 2007 (EST)
- The idea is to "advertize" (non-profit) organisations with similar targets, like DP, ibiblio, FSF, ... like the DP banner in the catalog pages. Marcello 15:26, 25 January 2007 (EST)
Esperanto video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uQbN3YB1E8 Promoting PG and DP. :-) Can we integrate that somewhere? Robert Marquardt 08:01, 31 January 2007 (EST)
- Is it possible to translate that video into other languages? It would be strange to put an Esperanto video in an English main page. +A.Ou 00:53, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
Probably not. No resources to do so. This page is an area to drop anything which might be helpful. I doubt that we ever contemplated to put the video on the main page or even on a secondary page. Robert Marquardt 02:49, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
Project Gutenberg Wiki section
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Apparently the section about volunteering on the wiki is missing in the draft. I think we should at least include a section (like the one above) that has a link to creating an account and some suggestions on what one could do to contribute; this can probably go after the wiki content under "The Gutenberg Wiki" heading. Any other ideas? +A.Ou 01:36, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
I stopped the work halfway in. The Wiki volunteer text should go to secondary pages. In fact it is already there. So a link from the main page is enough. Your ideas for that already look good. Nothing on this page is finalized. Feel free to change anything. Better matched (and less) colors would be nice for example. If you upload images please keep in mind that they need to be public domain. If you want your own sandbox page then simply create it. Robert Marquardt 02:49, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
Quotes
To make updating the "Quote of the Day" easier, I'm thinking about implementing a template that looks somewhat like a pull-quote. That way, you only need to specify two parameters {{{quote}}} and {{{author}}}, and the template will do the rest. The code is derived from a similar template on Wikipedia, which I simplified here. +A.Ou 02:33, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
| “ | {{{quote}}} | ” |
| —— {{{author}}} | ||
For example:
| “ | An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. | ” |
| —— Moby-Dick by Herman Melville | ||
