new design: request for comments

[Garrett LeSage]

On 08/19/2012 10:18 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
> I think putting the "search box" in the bottom of the page makes it harder to find & notice.
> Usually search is amongst the topmost and/or central elements in the site, as it makes it much easier for people to navigate across the site & locate the information they want.

I made a deliberate decision to downplay the importance of search on the 
mockup for the front page for these reasons:
• Someone should be able to easily find the correct content without 
having to resort to search.
• Right now, the form only searches WordPress, which is not very useful. 
Searching the contents of the is a great thing, however.

Solutions for improving search:
1) Combined WordPress + MediaWiki search results. (If it's not easily 
possible [1], we could consider _only_ searching MediaWiki, perhaps.)
2) Highlight search in the documentation area. Basically, when someone 
clicks on documentation, it has the most common and useful documentation 
grouped on the page, and above that, a big search entry (which is 
prefocused, so one could simply type and hit enter, when visiting 
ovirt.org/documentation).

[1] There are several plugins for integrating the two, but they all seem 
to focus on embedding, adding comments, or using a single sign-in (which 
could still be useful for us).


I'm currently working on a designs for the sections, and will be 
including a large search at the top of the documentation page to make 
sure searching is more prominent. Hopefully this will address your concern.

Thanks for your feedback!

Garrett