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

[Martin Holmes]

I went for three columns because it gets more stuff onto the screen at a 
time, on a normal wider-than-tall desktop screen; with your mockup I was 
scrolling to find the bit I use most often, which is the back matter in 
my case. In mine, I left the back matter over on the right because 
that's where everyone is used to seeing it, but of course that's not a 
good reason when we're redesigning.

I think it would be good to get some polling numbers on a couple of key 
questions:

1. Do we want two columns however wide your screen is, or do we want 
three columns collapsing to two if there's not enough room for them?

2. Do we want to keep Some Popular Sections?

3. Do we want to include the alternative output formats (PDF, ePub, 
Mobi) as list elements like the rest of the TOC (as in my mockup), or as 
links in a horizontal list across the top (as in Kevin's)?

Could everyone respond to these three questions one way or the other, 
please?

Thanks,
Martin

On 13-05-15 08:24 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>
>>>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)