[tei-council] Suggestion for a new Guidelines TOC document

[Kevin Hawkins]

If we keep back matter below body text, as in my version and as 
supported by James and me, then we have one column for

front matter
body text
back matter

and then potentially one column for

some popular sections

and a final column for

TEI sourcecode

Considering how short these other two columns would end up being, I 
think we only really need two columns.  Once you get into three columns, 
in my opinion the interface becomes difficult to scan the first time you 
see the page.  This is in fact why I started redesigning Martin's 
mockup: there was just too much to process all at once.

--K.

On 5/15/2013 8:42 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I've never really liked "Some popular sections" at all, but there was
> strong support for including it, IIRC. One question that the two mockups
> bring up is this: should we go for a three-column layout, which
> collapses to two columns if there's not enough width, as mine does, or
> should we go for a two-column layout from the beginning, as in Kevin's,
> which will probably mean more scrolling for people on wide screens, but
> will almost always look the same?
>
> I very frequently go to the back matter -- I have most of those back
> matter links in my bookmarks, too -- so my instinct was to keep the Back
> Matter section visible in the default layout, rather than scrolling off
> the bottom. But I may be unusual in that.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 13-05-14 11:13 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> Both are good.  I prefer Martin's for having the 'Some popular
>> sections' as well, but prefer Kevin's having 'Back Matter'
>> underneath the rest of the ToC.  (It seems weird to have it
>> separated.)  Using background colour to distinguish those things
>> that are part of the main ToC vs additional things seems a good idea.
>>
>> -James
>>
>> On 15/05/13 03:51, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>> Thanks, Martin, for the good work on this.  I've just uploaded a mockup
>>> of my own:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/421/#297e
>>>
>>> --K
>>>
>>> On 5/14/13 7:59 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> HI all,
>>>>
>>>> I've been working on this FR:
>>>>
>>>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/421/>
>>>>
>>>> which is about creating a new unified front page for the Guidelines, to
>>>> replace the multiple pages we now have. Here's my first shot at it:
>>>>
>>>> <http://web.uvic.ca/lancenrd/tei/>
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to take into account all the suggestions we've had. A lot of
>>>> the links don't go to the right places, since it's out of context.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>
>>