[General] Wiki Homepage != Landing Page

[Jared Rhine]

Mimi Yin wrote:
> There are 2 separate pages. 1 for the Wiki Homepage which describes the 
> project from more of an organizational / technical standpoint.
> And then there is the landing page, which is really our billboard / PR / 
> end-user focused / sell page.
> 
> So that was my confusion. We need to have an URL that is not 
> chandlerproject.org for the Wiki Homepage.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'm solid on the proposal and status now, too.

For next steps, I worry that the two will remain somewhat confusing as 
long as they sorta feel like "2 home pages, for different things".

To me, the landing page has more weight and prominence.  It's at the top 
of the URL space, it's shortest, it's at the "root".  It's clearly *the* 
homepage, if we stopped counting at one.

The wiki homepage seems to fall into an "about this wiki" category.  It 
nicely explains the wiki areas, and provides links to all the regular 
wiki navigation and even some deep links.  But once reviewed, wiki 
travelers are likely to favor the the left and top nav.

A couple of thoughts:

* It's a little weird that the landing page has one more link than the 
regular wiki left nav (to "Project Wiki").  I wonder if there's a way to 
keep the list the same between homepage and wiki while leaving it 
obvious that there's an "about this wiki" page (ChandlerProjectHome). 
Or could put "Project Wiki" in the wiki left-nav and have it go to 
ChandlerProjectHome too.

* It's too bad that really the only wiki nav that's missing from the 
landing page is the top-nav areas (Product, Teams, Develop, Notes).  I 
feel like I'll end up clicking down into the wiki home just to get the 
area nav, instead of actually needing the "intro" again.

* It certainly seems like the page could stay reasonably where it is, 
and use that as a final URL.  I don't know that a new URL would add much 
unless we wish to make that page more official than being linked to

* If you've arguments against Product/ChandlerProjectHome as a final 
location, we can consider something like Main/WebHome.  I've cut-and 
pasted the content of ChandlerProjectHome into there (removing the 
redirect), so you can try it out.

This has probably been implicit, but where do you see the "Chandler 
Project" graphic logos linked to, assuming they do?  Probably the 
ChandlerProjectHome would make the most sense given the current design.

Overall it feels like we're close to having a perfectly workable 
solution to getting the landing page and wiki home resolved pretty 
quick.  With recent CSS hacking on the landing page, I'm eager to post 
it now!

-- Jared


-- Jared