[ckan-discuss] New 'Features' pages

[Mark Wainwright]

Hi Rufus,

Yes, I agree - I've rejigged it roughly as you suggest. No grouping of
topics is perfect, but it is more approachable if things are grouped
somehow.

Mark

On 3 February 2012 12:45, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 3 February 2012 12:18, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Good news - I have restructured and rewritten the previously rather
>> scrappy 'Features' pages on ckan.org: <http://ckan.org/features/>.
>
> Great work Mark. I think, at least for the overview page, we may to
> start group in some way under 'big topics'  as there is rather too
> much to take in at once. e.g.:
>
> * Publish and find Datasets: Publish, Search, Metadata (perhaps
> renamed to dataset information?)
>  * Is history worth its own section or should be in this page
> * Visualize and analyze: visualization, previewing, QA, Stats
> * Geospatial
> * Store and manage data: data store, blog storage, data API
> * Customize and Extend - theming, plugin architecture, API, open-source
> * Community and Federation (maybe don't go together).
>
> Rufus
>
>> Of course, the product is (happily!) a moving target so these pages
>> will always be a work in progress. I intend to get a few more
>> screenshots, and hopefully at some point our splendid new designer
>> will have a chance to spruce them up, too. But meantime any comments
>> or suggestions on the content will be welcome.



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