[tei-council] guidelines front page

[Laurent Romary]

I definitely like this page (which I use to show the TEI to others, but you are
right that there should be a more comprehensive and direct access to the the
guidelines right from the main TEI page. Could not we have a specific column
below the main blue items with such direct entry points (cf. also example list,
maybe project).
Think all of the basic resources that a user may want to have a quick access to
without bothering of the preliminary bla bla.
Laurent


Selon Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman at Brown.edu>:

> SR> Marcus B suggested a change, instantiated at
> SR> http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/, of showing
> SR> chapter numbers.
> SR>
> SR> any problems with that?
>
> I think the change is an improvement, but the change we should be
> making is to get rid of this page altogether. It is not supposed to
> exist, and, frankly, has no excuse to exist except perhaps that Chris
> was too rushed to appropriately fold this page into
> http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/ in the lead-up to release.
>
> As the site is right now, to get to read the contents of P5 a user
> needs to go to the TEI website (http://www.tei-c.org/) and
>
> * click on "Guidelines"
>
> * either select "P5 Guidelines" from the javascript drop-down, or
>   click on "P5 Guidelines" in the left-side navigation area
>
> * click on either "Browse the P5 Guidelines" in the left-side
>   navigation area or "the online version of the P5 Guidelines" in the
>   main prose (both take you to the same place, although the former
>   via a redirect or some such)
>
> * click on "Table of Contents"
>
> This strikes me as one step too many. When the user clicks on
> "Browse" or "online" links, they should be taken straight to the TOC.
> The other links that are on what is now called "the front page"
> should be on the same page that has the "Browse" and "online" links.
>
> Conceptually there isn't really any difference between
> http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/index.xml and
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
> although they are implemented very differently, and of course the
> latter is part of the released package.
>
>
> I also find it a bit startling that the editors' names have been
> removed from this new "front page", as it was the only place in the
> online edition that they were mentioned. Perhaps I'm being a selfish
> glory-seeking pig, but I think it appropriate to mention me & Lou
> *somewhere* in the P5 hierarchy.
>
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