Posted by eigentor on March 9, 2008 at 12:04pm
Drupal.org will see a huge overhaul one day - at least I hope so. Always having an eye for the competition may help. Interfacewise one can always look what Joomla does. http://extensions.joomla.org
I gotta say - it is so simple to present a lot of content in a still manageable way. Four Columns with Categories, two blocks with newest and most popular modules on top, and here you go. Could be a sample for other pages as well. I'm thinking of access control page and modules page in the drupal admin section.
Following our newly found way (views 2UI) one could keep everything on one page, and have a section loaded by Ajax (yellow space on screenshot For-drupal.jpg) to set permissions / Activation status for the selected Module.
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A block on the front page of
A block on the front page of d.o with the newest modules released/updated could be interesting.
Mockups for a possible Solution
I continued on the idea in this issue: http://drupal.org/node/232152
So have a look at the mockups, maybe this is a way to go.
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Eigentor
Without confusing the matter, this idea consists out of two parts, The chaning of the module page on Drupal.org, and chaning of the Acces control. Maby keep the idea of changing the module page here?
Good idea
Yeah, I mixed it up a bit. So we rather talk about modules page here, I'll do a new mockup for that.
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Thanks for bringing this up.
Thanks for bringing this up. I was browsing that page last week and reading every summary for every module took me close to four hours.
That led me to think about what could be done to improve the page and a couple of ideas I had was:
* allow projects to be tagged
* more fine-grained categories
* forcing descriptions/summaries to be as brief as possible while informative
* make projects searchable
* while viewing a project, display a box with similar projects
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// * allow projects to be
// * allow projects to be tagged
- do you mean free tagging? By users or project maintainers?
// * more fine-grained categories
- I think tagging would fix this, maybe.
// * forcing descriptions/summaries to be as brief as possible while informative
I know sepeck and Michelle regularly prune teasers, maybe adding a hard teaser field would help to keep them shorter from the start though...
// * make projects searchable
They're already searchable at http://drupal.org/search - but a search box on the downloads page defaulting to 'projects' only would make a massive difference.
//* while viewing a project, display a box with similar projects
That's on it's way with 'pivots', I think.
Yes, free tagging by
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Forcing people to register?
The filter of version isnt working well, it isnt applied if you sort on date or name. Beside that, why are we still forcing people to register to apply the filter? This filter is massivly handy if you want to browse all the modules out there for Drupal 6 (usually what people do) but now you cant.
Bojhan: the pages are cached
Bojhan: the pages are cached for anonymous users, so the filter won't work. I guess if it used url arguments instead of post that might work. Then it could probably just be links instead of the select.