On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:41:19 +0100, "Frank Ellermann"
<nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> said:
Hi, many important links now go to http://www.openspf.org
as it should be. But many important new pages are at the
moment only available below http://new.openspf.org - and
there's no prominent link from the old to the new pages.
That's mainly relevant for the appointed editors of the
SPF site, but it also affects the community (incl. me),
what should I do elsewhere, e.g. on the Wikipedia page
in its section 'external links' ?
In theory the new pages will replace the old site when
they are declared to be ready. Or at least that's what I
think the plan is.
Therefore creating tons of links to new.openspf.org on
other pages might be dubious. I do it anyway on my pages,
because I hope to be able to fix it when necessary. But
I'm less confident to do it elsewhere, e.g. Wikipedia, too
many links to ???.openspf.org could be considered as "SEO"
instead of "NPOV".
Therefore I'd appreciate it if <http://new.openspf.org> is
linked on most "old" www.openspf.org pages.
There's a prominent site navigation box on most old pages,
and its layout is roughly like this:
| faq downloads sitemap contact
| homepage
| howworks news
| whatdoes
| services mailinglist
The "news" link is completely obsolete (2004), it should
go to the new "news" page. Finding the old "news" page
is still possible via the old sitemap.
There's an empty slot to the right of "whatdoes". IMHO
an ideal place to link http://new.openspf.org - details
as it pleases the webmasters, a variation could be:
old "news" => link to http://new.openspf.org
empty slot => use "Council" as title with a link to an
interesting Council page (resolutions or
minutes or members)
The old "services" link essentially links to the lists,
but that's already covered by the old "mailinglist" link.
A really good old page is "mechanisms", maybe it makes
sense to replace "services" by this page. Otherwise the
old "services" page could mention more than the "wizard":
What about say Scott's validator ? Or the new "services"
page instead of the redundant link to the "mailinglists" ?
It's clear that improving the old pages isn't the official
plan, but OTOH improving the old navigation box is a minor
task - I'd guess less than an hour's work including doing
it twice after a typo found by the W3C validator.
And it automatically improves all old pages, the navigation
box is everywhere.
Bye, Frank
P.S. (related) <http://www.openspf.org/mailflows.html> is a
bit minimalistic. Because I can't read this PDF on my box
Meng created a PNG, and I tried to find out where it is using
the sitemap.
That failed, the sitemap is apparently incomplete, where's
Meng's important "CYA" slide show with the Olson objection
about v=spf1 abuse by PRA ?
Finally I found <http://www.openspf.org/mailflows.png> and
decided to replace two Wikipedia links to mailflows.html by
links to mailflows.pdf with mailflows.pdf as alternative.
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