New Pidgin Website

New Website Home Page

• Logo
• Download button/info
• What is Gaim? intro (a short paragraph - maybe even just a few phrases)
• news/updates
• link to developer site

Global Navigation

Links Required on All Pages

• Home
• Get Pidgin (aka, Download)
• What is Pidgin? (aka, About) - seanegan - I don't think we need this in global navigation. An explanation on the front page should suffice, which a possible "Learn more..." link from there.
• Developers?
• Anything else?
• seanegan: I think a Support page would be useful too. This would cover the FAQ, Bug Reports and Contact Info pages from the Gaim site and should be distinct from the Developer site lschiere: while I think a support page with easy access to submit a bug report and see the FAQ is useful and needed, we do NOT under any circumstances want a forum.

sgarrity: Maybe non-home pages don't actually need any global navigation beyond a link back to the home page.

Sections on old (Gaim) Site

• News - incorporate this directly into the home page - no need for a permanent menu link to it, the end of the home page news can have a link for "old news"
• What is Gaim? - The home page should start this off with a short description and link to a general About Pidgin page
• Documentation - still need this? if so, merge with Support page
• FAQ - Merge with Support page
• Screnshots - Merge with About Pidgin page
• Downloads - Prominent Windows download on home page, link to download page with all other formats
• Windows Port - Does this need it's own page? Is it really a "port'? In a lot of senses it is, there is a lot of win32 specific information on the existing win32 page, and many bugs win32 users report are specific to that platform.
• Plugins - still need this?
• Themes - drop it. Hmmm. we will need something to replace it. developer.pidgin.im's ticket system won't do the job without degrading its usefulness. Similarly we will need something for plugins.
• Bug reports - this is covered by the "developer.pidgin.im" (I disagree, see below --elb) - maybe merge with Support page? --sgarrity
• Project Page - this is covered by the "developer.pidgin.im"
• Contact Info - this is covered by the "developer.pidgin.im" (This and bug reports are things that users might not associate with "developer" activities -- they should probably have "user-friendly" (heh) links -- elb) - maybe merge with Support page? --sgarrity - That's what I was thinking when I suggested a support page seanegan