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structure? anyone?

I agree with lots of what’s being said about the blog currently being the main selling point of this website, and it’s a lot of fun. So let’s make that our frontpage (as it already is). But there are other things I want from this as well, such as a place to easily post my papers for others to read–and I don’t want to do that in the main blog. Can we integrate the wiki for this purpose, and create a structure like Eric was talking about? The blog is our main page, but then we also have links to games, author pages, about us, projects, etc. And can there be a way to sort by both author and category at the same time? I know I’m not posting much, but I’m not motivated to do much until we have a working structure that will be semi-permanent. I started posting regularly on the wiki, and right then we switched to the blog. Give me some time to get used to this more public (all posts jumbled together and it piles up quickly) and less organized (in my opinion) setup.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 18th, 2006 at 9:13 pm by jonny and is filed under metablog, web design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “structure? anyone?”

  1. carl Says:

    May 18th, 2006 at 10:29 pm

    Hmm. You can’t sort by category and author at the same time, as far as I know. I’d be surprised if there’s really much use for that in practice. I doubt either your author page or any one particular category will be posted to so often that it becomes confusing (though I know the front page can).

    I definitely agree about having a navigational structure that encompasses both the blog and wiki and makes a little more sense out of fitting them together. Let’s work on that.

    For myself, I think the blog will do most of what I want. I’ll probably keep a few pages on the wiki that are mostly static but need regular updating (like book list, movie list, papers and such), and just link to them from the blog when I update them. Or something.

  2. carl Says:

    May 18th, 2006 at 10:36 pm

    A couple additional thoughts on things you can do with the blog:

    1. I set up the url http://carl.meyerbros.org so it redirects to my author page on the blog. I haven’t decided if I’ll use it much, but if I want it gives me an easy way to link people straight to my author page (sort of like having my own pseudo-blog). If you guys want I can set up eric.meyerbros.org and jonny.meyerbros.org in the same way.

    2. On your author page, I can set you up with a custom sidebar. If you look at mine, you’ll see I added sidebar links to my relevant wiki pages, and to meyerloewen.net.

  3. carl Says:

    May 18th, 2006 at 11:13 pm

    ok, I’m wrong. You can sort by author and category, like this:

    /?author_name=jonny&category_name=metablog

  4. eric Says:

    May 19th, 2006 at 1:46 am

    great. i want eric.meyerbros.org to stay exactly where it is - though i need to do a lot of work on my end to perfect it. i’m starting to get a sense for the structure that i see.

    i’ll draw it out for you, but it involves each of us developing a personal page (either on the blog or wiki, wherever you feel more comfortable) that we can do anything with. that will be linked from the “about us” page which I will make as a blog page. on that page you can link to whatever projects or papers you have - which you can post either on the wiki or the blog, however you see fit. yourname.meyerbros.org can link here if you like - that way you set your home page up to be just exactly what you want it to be.

    i’ll also make a blog page about our design work that will link to the styles and anything else we are doing design-wise. (my only question: does the game get linked from here? get it’s own page? if linked, is this page called ‘projects’ rather than ‘design’?)

    the blog and wiki remain (for the most part) as they are, though we’ll make some sidebar changes and add the overarching navigation.