From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Barton Subject: Re: Worg needs some reorganizing Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:44:30 +0100 Message-ID: <4CB6D0FE.20506@manor-farm.org> References: <4CAD81B0.6090807@manor-farm.org> <87iq197ool.fsf@mail.bantercat.co.uk> <87pqveyct2.fsf@gmail.com> <87ocayl81d.fsf@manor-farm.org> <0E084C6C-6FD1-4C74-BD9F-34F2830B93C5@gmail.com> <87bp6ytacd.fsf_-_@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87eibunlrn.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: ian@manor-farm.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54491 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P6KMU-0007x8-U9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:44:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P6KMT-0005aL-Oi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:44:34 -0400 Received: from mail.ian-barton.com ([109.74.196.44]:40928 helo=li40-130.members.linode.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P6KMT-0005aA-Js for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:44:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eibunlrn.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: Dan Davison , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik On 13/10/10 16:41, Eric Schulte wrote: > Dan Davison writes: > >> Worg could do with some reorganization. It is not at all easy to find >> stuff in there (at least, using a web browser). > > I agree there is certainly room for improvement here. Maybe this sort > of re-organization should be considered along with the new CSS changes. > > [...] > >> This suggests to me firstly that we should do away with some of the hard >> directory structure and place most/all of the config/tutorial type files >> in a single directory. > > The other option I'd see to eliminating directory structures would be > using something to reflect the directory structure in the title bar of > the page [1]. Just a thought. > > Another option may be a navigation side bar reflecting the contents of > the current directory bringing the web experience closer to the local > git experience. > > Best -- Eric > > Footnotes: > [1] I'm thinking "tabs", e.g. "tutorials", "contributed packages", > etc... See the following for an example of such a layout made > using Jekyll http://epr.adaptive.cs.unm.edu/ I think that part of the problem is that worg has now grown so big (a good thing), it's quite hard to find things just by browsing. The front page is basically just a big list. Once you have browsed around for a while, it's very easy to get lost. Eric's idea of a sidebar showing where you are and making it easier to get somewhere else is a good idea. Maybe we are reaching the limits of what can be achieved using org-publish alone and should consider some other tool as well, such as jekyll? This would need to be done in a way that still allowed easy user contributions and an automated build process. Ian.