Ticket #9571 (closed PLIP: wontfix)
Update "Welcome to Plone" Page & Experience
Reported by: | dukebody | Owned by: | smcmahon |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | Future |
Component: | Installers | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: | grahamperrin@… |
Description
http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/230
Plone's current "welcome-to-Plone" page provides links for help, etc., however, it needs redesign for attractiveness and effectiveness. In addition, two pieces of sample content (a news item and an event) should be created so the existing Collections are more obvious.
Proposed by
Joel Burton
Seconded by
Alexander Limi
Proposal type
User interface
State
being-discussed
Definitions
Motivation
- Despite being on the current "Welcome to Plone" page, many new users miss the links for Plone books, IRC support, and end-user manual.
- Due to Plone not showing navigation until level 2, there is no navigation in out-of-the-box Plone (there is no area where the nav is shown, given that none of the pre-created folders have any content that would appear in nav). This obscures the fact that we have nav as a feature from casual evaluators.
- We have no examples of using images in Plone content, a common area of misunderstanding for casual evaluators.
Assumptions
Proposal
- Update the existing front-page ("Welcome to Plone") page to remove the how-to-get help information. This will make it much smaller.
- Create a new top-level folder, getting-started ("Getting Started"). This will contain:
o a default document with similar information as the current home page, but more visually presented, published o an image for Plone Chat (taken from plone.org's support page), published o the image of "Plone books" (take form plone.org's support page), published o a sample, very minimal news item, published o a sample, very minimal event, published
Implementation
Deliverables
- A .zexp of the proposed new example folder and front-page will be created and discussed. This can be added to any site for testing purposed.
- Once approved, this content will be placed in the standard Plone GenericSetup profile.
- If Python code is required to install this, appropriate unit tests will need to be written
- Translation/localization of this is not required for success of this project; however, the translation teams may choose to translate this new content.
- No new documented is expected.
Risks
- This will ship content that most people will want to delete when they begin their "real" Plone site
o This is similar to the "News" and "Events" folders, which people delete before starting the real sites o All of these will be in folder, so that ongoing improvements to the examples folder will not require to change their behavior
- The new welcome page may require translation
- The new event and news item may require translation
o However, given that we expect these to be very, very minimal, this translation shouldn't be too onerous
- This new content will use a bit of space in the ZODB
o The expected total difference of installer & ZODB size is less than 100k.
Progress log
- Discussed and PLIPed at the Strategic Planning Followup in New Orleans (6 Jun 2008)
Participants
- Joel Burton
- Alexander Limi
- Veda Williams
- Sam Knox (proposed, for helping with design/content of the new "welcome" page)
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by rossp
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to wontfix
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