[En-Nut-Discussion] New website design

[Edwin van den Oetelaar (Oetelaar Automatisering uit Best)]

I have to agree with Ole.
There should be an automatic site map and bread-crumbs trail.
Also the Tab-pages could be menus.

So when you move over eg. 'Download'
it would show a menu with items :
- Nut/OS for Linux
- Nut/OS for Mac OS X
- Nut/OS for Win32
- Nut/OS other releases
- Applications
- CAD Files
- CPLD design

I sure hope that you have all this stuff in a database/CMS system.
If you don't, I recommend using one, and pasting all your content into it.
Anything like Joomla or Drupal or Mambo (just like Ole)

(It looks like 1990 flat file, which could have been generated with a
Makefile or FrontPage of course)

Off topic : Ole, when will you be putting your contact info on your
website ?
I have been "checking back again soon" like it says, but nothing
happened in months.

Best regards,
Edwin van den Oetelaar

PS. do you need volunteers for fixing your website Harald?

Ole Reinhardt wrote:
> Hi Harald,
>
> my congratulations to the cool new Ethernut Website design!
>
> Very nice look!
>
> Just a few criticism :) I just got lost after a few clicks :) So here
> are some Ideas how to improve the site... 
>
> - On a large screen the information get's a little bit lost (long text
>   rows). Perhaps think about a design with fixed width (centered) or at
>   least a maximum width.
>
> - Some pages could provide a little more information itself, but not
>   just linking to the next page. Will say, there is a quite deep nesting
>   level of the pages.
>
> - A menu (just small text links) providing some kind of a site map,
>   would help very much to directly find the information one is looking
>   for. Like:
>
> Hardware 
>     Reference Designs
>         Ethernut 1
>         Ethernut 2
>         ....
>     Compatible Boards
>         ....
>     Add-Ons
>         ....
> Firmware
>     ....
> Tools
>     ....
>
> - When entering a new site, it would help a lot to not get lost in the
> site-tree, if you would provide a small hint with the nesting level on
> top of the page like:
>
> Hardware > Reference Designs > Ethernut3
>
> where you could click every level to easily find back your way to the
> starting point...
>
> Bye,
>
> Ole