A somewhat pragmatic approach would be to use a single page suitably subdivided if no scrolling is involved. Else use a two page solution. The fewer pages a user has to link to the faster that person finds what they are looking for.
--hsm On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > Colin Campbell has been working with me on the Introduction of the > new website. However, we're still debating what to do with the > "Easier editing" page: > http://lilypond.org/website/easier-editing.html > > In particular, should we: > 1) list all programs that help or produce lilypond input code on > this page, or > > 2) only list a few programs here and list the rest elsewhere? > (probably somewhere in Usage, with a link from this page > to that location) > > When he began working, he had one opinion and I had the other. > But over the past four months, we've switched positions like a > finely-honed comedy act -- we still disagree, but we've both taken > up the other person's initial position. > > The argument for #1: we have a unified place for people to look; > it's easier to update; it's easier to find; etc. > > The argument for #2: it doesn't make sense to have algorithmic > programming environments like Strasheela and FOMUS in the same > list as Denemo, Frescobaldi, and LilyPondTool; having the extra > options will only confused newbies; if we keep 4 or 5 > "highlighted" programs in this list and move the rest somewhere > else, it won't be much harder to maintain the list; etc. > > > I'm not particularly looking for votes on this issue -- rather, > I'm looking for reasons for (or against) #1 and #2 that we haven't > thought of. It would be great if somebody said "we should do #x > because XYZ" and then have us go "of course! XYZ! That makes > everything totally clear; we all agree due to XYZ." > > > If you have other concerns about the website, please don't mention > them here. I'll be posting other questions once this issue is > resolved. > > Cheers, > - Graham > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
