Adapt new/changed content presention
adapt the way how new and changed content is presented to zope.org visitors
Status: IsProposal?
Author
Problem
Zope.org is experienced as a static collection of Zope related content and as a software/product repository.
- on frontpage only general/zope.inc news and product releases are displayed
- wiki changes are accessible through wiki only
- created/changed information of
user content
is not available in a usefull way through search or customized listings- example: 'Zope How-Tos': latest additions in March 2004
- categorization of content through Subjects is not visible in search/listings
- changes in zope.org documents are not displayed. creation, modification times and author infos are - in part - visible in folder_contents, but missing from the 'view'-templates
- userfeedback/commenting is not a general option.
users start gathering anywhere they see a chance to speak up. examples:
- http://zope.org/Members is used as a
forum
- http://zope.org/Documentation/... backtalk problem
- articles that allow comments
- http://zope.org/Members is used as a
Proposal
The visitor of the website experiences zope.org as driven by user-contributions, evolving over time. Add a new layer of access: information is available by time, state, type and subject. Besides that zope.org stays as it is, a document/software repository, available through folder structure and catalog queries.
conceptual prototype: weblog software
The website should adept concepts and methods of weblog software and add them to the overall information-strategy of zope.org. If weblog-style presentation is used or not is beyond this proposal.
- new, modified and commented
user content
(news, documentation, product release) is displayed on the frontpage and on the respective area head-pages. - time, state, type and subject information (metadata) is used to create the listings.
- any listing is also available as separate rss-feed
- this will not affect the overall design of zope.org document storage
- possible addition: support for user weblogs and weblog-management
- possible addition: user defined/customized rss-feeds
Risks
None
Additional Material
scrap-book:
Zope.org's structure (as of July 2004) - (left column): - About Zope - Business - Documentation - Download - Developers - Resources - Zope Exits - (center column): - What is Zope - System massages area - Zope for... - (right column): - Zope.inc Advertising - Zope.org Member news - Zope.org Product news 'dynamic' content: - time - created - modified - state - new - modified - comment - content type - subject - creator - contributors areas of 'dynamic' content: - along the lines of left/right column content - frontpage: summary of news/changes - area: summary of area news/changes/comments - icons signaling states (new, modified, comment)