[Geoserver-devel] Staging version of new geoserver confluence theme is live

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Hey everyone-

There are still some tweaks that are planned (links in the top navigation which need final urls, some padding & margin changes, and some additional polish on breadcrumbs), but I want to go ahead and send this out. You can see the new theme in a staging environment at http://geo.openplans.org:8090/ - it has data from the live site, so your logins should work normally.

Please take the time to look things over, and send feedback my way. I hadn't used Confluence at all prior to this project, so there may be some elements that I've missed, or which need work. Your input will help make sure things are as solid as possible, when this ultimately goes live.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

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Christopher Patterson wrote:

Hey everyone-

There are still some tweaks that are planned (links in the top navigation which need final urls, some padding & margin changes, and some additional polish on breadcrumbs), but I want to go ahead and send this out. You can see the new theme in a staging environment at http://geo.openplans.org:8090/ - it has data from the live site, so your logins should work normally.
  

Looks great!
(I still recommend seperate spaces for the User and Develoeprs guides).

The download arrow with the "geoserver square is cute; took me a moment to figure out what it was.
The About, FAQ and Download links at the top of the page are broken (looks to be a relative URL gone funny?)

When switching to the printing version of a page the old logo is visible:
- http://geo.openplans.org:8090/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=GEOSDOC&title=Developers+Guide&decorator=printable

There is a template for that you need to hunt down and update.

You should publish a maximum image width; if you check out the image on this page you can see it is cut off..
- http://geo.openplans.org:8090/display/GEOSDOC/1+How+a+GetFeature+Request+Works

(good job keeping the pages a fixed width however).

You may consider keeping the same "GeoServer" font/color for the GeoServer Blog box on the left hand side?

Finally if I go to this page:
- http://geo.openplans.org:8090/display/GEOSDOC/Documentation#

It looks like there is a floating "[ArcSDE]" box in the middle of the page for no reason...I suspect this is a page link that is not there? Normally I can click on those things to make the new page ... but it is not working right now.

You can also see I am logged on; but only "Add Page" and "Add Attachment" are visible; so there is no way for me to edit any page ever.

Please take the time to look things over, and send feedback my way. I hadn't used Confluence at all prior to this project, so there may be some elements that I've missed, or which need work. Your input will help make sure things are as solid as possible, when this ultimately goes live.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Cheers,
Jody

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Yeah, Jody mentions this, but it's a bit buried. We need a prominent 'edit this page'. In the old version I didn't think it was prominent enough, it was hidden under 'page operations'. We need to still have the buttons for that.

Ideally I'd like to maybe not have _all_ the page operations if you're not logged in, but I think we should have an 'edit this page', that if users aren't logged in then it gets them to make an account. So that people realize that this is a wiki.

In the future we're going to have the docs not be a wiki, but we will still have a community doc section that should be obviously a wiki. For now let's just make it all obviously a wiki.

C

Jody Garnett wrote:

Christopher Patterson wrote:

Hey everyone-

There are still some tweaks that are planned (links in the top navigation which need final urls, some padding & margin changes, and some additional polish on breadcrumbs), but I want to go ahead and send this out. You can see the new theme in a staging environment at http://geo.openplans.org:8090/ - it has data from the live site, so your logins should work normally.
  

Looks great!
(I still recommend seperate spaces for the User and Develoeprs guides).

The download arrow with the "geoserver square is cute; took me a moment to figure out what it was.
The About, FAQ and Download links at the top of the page are broken (looks to be a relative URL gone funny?)

When switching to the printing version of a page the old logo is visible:
- http://geo.openplans.org:8090/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=GEOSDOC&title=Developers+Guide&decorator=printable

There is a template for that you need to hunt down and update.

You should publish a maximum image width; if you check out the image on this page you can see it is cut off..
- http://geo.openplans.org:8090/display/GEOSDOC/1+How+a+GetFeature+Request+Works

(good job keeping the pages a fixed width however).

You may consider keeping the same "GeoServer" font/color for the GeoServer Blog box on the left hand side?

Finally if I go to this page:
- http://geo.openplans.org:8090/display/GEOSDOC/Documentation#

It looks like there is a floating "[ArcSDE]" box in the middle of the page for no reason...I suspect this is a page link that is not there? Normally I can click on those things to make the new page ... but it is not working right now.

You can also see I am logged on; but only "Add Page" and "Add Attachment" are visible; so there is no way for me to edit any page ever.

Please take the time to look things over, and send feedback my way. I hadn't used Confluence at all prior to this project, so there may be some elements that I've missed, or which need work. Your input will help make sure things are as solid as possible, when this ultimately goes live.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Cheers,
Jody

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Chris Holmes wrote:

Yeah, Jody mentions this, but it's a bit buried. We need a prominent 'edit this page'. In the old version I didn't think it was prominent enough, it was hidden under 'page operations'. We need to still have the buttons for that.

Um it is actually missing; my page operations does not include an option to edit? Am I missing something?

In the future we're going to have the docs not be a wiki, but we will still have a community doc section that should be obviously a wiki. For now let's just make it all obviously a wiki.
C

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Arne already mentioned it in channel. I'm tracking it down now, in fact.

On Sep 18, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Chris Holmes wrote:

Yeah, Jody mentions this, but it's a bit buried. We need a prominent 'edit this page'. In the old version I didn't think it was prominent enough, it was hidden under 'page operations'. We need to still have the buttons for that.

Um it is actually missing; my page operations does not include an option to edit? Am I missing something?

In the future we're going to have the docs not be a wiki, but we will still have a community doc section that should be obviously a wiki. For now let's just make it all obviously a wiki.
C

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Chris,

This looks fantastic.

As for the prominent editing function, I know that the "Default" theme has Edit and Tools pull-down menus that are very intuitive. I always wanted to incorporate them into our theme, but the Navigation sidebar goes away by default when you add this in, and I wanted a little of both. :slight_smile:

My personal page on Confluence has an example of this. Although you can't see the Edit/Add menu, they work the same as Tools.

http://geoserver.org/display/~bmmpxf/

Thanks,
Mike

Christopher Patterson wrote:

Hey everyone-

There are still some tweaks that are planned (links in the top navigation which need final urls, some padding & margin changes, and some additional polish on breadcrumbs), but I want to go ahead and send this out. You can see the new theme in a staging environment at http://geo.openplans.org:8090/ - it has data from the live site, so your logins should work normally.

Please take the time to look things over, and send feedback my way. I hadn't used Confluence at all prior to this project, so there may be some elements that I've missed, or which need work. Your input will help make sure things are as solid as possible, when this ultimately goes live.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

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Howdy folks-

Andy and I have put the finishing touches on the upcoming wordpress and confluence themes.

They're visible at http://gsblog.opengeo.org/ and http://geo.openplans.org:8090/

A reminder that there is one outstanding issue with the Confluence theme, which I believe I'll need developer assistance to complete.

Chris Holmes had wanted a larger, standalone edit button for articles to reinforce the community nature of the Confluence site. So, I need help getting the page id to resolve correctly, and to update the logic in main.vmd so that the edit button shows up on all pages, but points to the login screen if the user is not currently logged in.

There are also edit links at the bottom of all editable pages, so I don't feel that's a showstopper.

In terms of next steps, who do we need to coordinate with to get these live, and what's the timeline for launch?

Chris

On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Patterson wrote:

Hey everyone-

There are still some tweaks that are planned (links in the top navigation which need final urls, some padding & margin changes, and some additional polish on breadcrumbs), but I want to go ahead and send this out. You can see the new theme in a staging environment at http://geo.openplans.org:8090/ - it has data from the live site, so your logins should work normally.

Please take the time to look things over, and send feedback my way. I hadn't used Confluence at all prior to this project, so there may be some elements that I've missed, or which need work. Your input will help make sure things are as solid as possible, when this ultimately goes live.

Thanks in advance,

Chris