new design: request for comments

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 08/20/2012 11:12 AM, Garrett LeSage wrote:
> 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).
>
3) Use google search for the entire ovirt.org domain?

Thanks
Robert
> [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
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