Structure of our websites (in CVS + on the servers)

[Jason Bainbridge]

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On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:47, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Friday 11 October 2002 10:22, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > yeah, I want that *.kde.org is accessible through www.kde.org/apps/* or
> > www.kde.org/areas/*
>
> I don't think that's a good idea. It will only confuse users (who either
> don't know there are two URLs and if they do they might think that one is
> a mirror of the other), search engines (which will index the pages twice
> because they appear at different URLs) and authors (who will add broken
> links again after you fixed them because they are not aware of the
> issues). I only see problems, no advantages.
>
> regards
>  Daniel

The more I think about it the more I think that the re-organisation should be 
mainly just within CVS, leaving everything else the same except of course 
updating the cron jobs to grab the right source from the right place for the 
various sites.

Something like the following structure for CVS (using only a small sample of 
sites):

/www
	/apps
		/kate
		/multimedia
	/docs
	/home (the main kde.org)
	/developer
	/printing
	/usability

Basically having a main www module so all the web stuff is in one CVS module, 
with kde.org being moved to /www/home and all the other *.kde.org sites being 
at the same level or alternatively they could be put within sub categories.

Doing it this way would still reach the goal of improving the maintainability 
of the sites, plus it would still preserve the existing paths and the links 
could remain the same. There could also be some benefit to allowing each of 
the sites to customise the new templates even if they just want to make some 
slight adjustments or do something like a different colour scheme.

I would have no problems in all in giving the go ahead for usability to moved 
over to this sort of structure as it would not affect any of the code base 
but moving it within the root of kde.org as proposed would take more work and 
planning to accomplish.

Regards,
- -- 
Jason Bainbridge
KDE - Conquer Your Desktop
The KDE Usability Project - http://usability.kde.org
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