RE: [platform-swt-dev] eclipse snippets webpage

[Ron Baldwin <ron.baldwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some of the most useful things are completely buried, like the afore
mentioned SWT snippet page (which took me several times before I memorized
the link path), as well as the various FAQs (project, SWT, etc.).  As far as
the project FAQ, I realize that it is linked in the "Welcome to eclipse.org"
opening paragraph, but it gets lost in all the text, and the first place I
look for FAQs in in the navigation bar.

The frame thing not only causes (almost) every page to show as the home
page, but if you open a link in a new window, sometimes you get the nav bar
(downloads), and sometimes you don't (bugs).

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cesar Mello [mailto:cmello@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:34 PM
> To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] eclipse snippets webpage
> 
> 
> I agree entirely to Erik, I think the site navigation should 
> be improved.
> When I send the eclipse.org link to other people new to SWT, 
> they complain
> they don't find the stuff, so I must keep sending the 
> complete URLs of each
> page...
> 
> Best regards,
> Cesar Mello
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Poupaert" <erik.poupaert@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:17 PM
> Subject: [platform-swt-dev] eclipse snippets webpage
> 
> 
> >
> > When I need to go the eclipse snipped webpage -- you know, 
> the page with:
> >
> > SWT Component Development Resources
> >   Index
> > SWT FAQ
> > ...
> > Snippets
> > Snippets for Pocket PC
> > ...
> >
> > I need to click at least 10 times from the home page, and 
> remember the way
> > to get there. Ok. But what's even worse, I can't put the page in my
> > favourites, because all these web pages have the same Url:
> > http://www.eclipse.org/platform/index.html!!! So, I'm back 
> to clicking one
> > million times to get to the snippets; if I didn't forget 
> how to get there,
> > in the meanwhile. By the way, the website looks really nice, but the
> > subdivisions and menus are really useless. You won't find 
> the snippets
> from
> > looking at the menus, because you need to click a good 
> number of vague
> links
> > to get there:
> >
> > (menu) projects--> (halfway the page) the eclipse project 
> --> (halfway the
> > page) platform --> (halfway the page) subproject SWT --> 
> (somewhere in the
> > middle of a sentence) Development Resources --> (scroll to 
> the very bottom
> > of a long page) Snippets.
> >
> > Giving each page a distinct URL would tremendously improve 
> the website's
> > usability; apart from reviewing this strange website 
> organization and take
> > out some of the circular thinking.
> >
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