hmmmm...yeah, I should probably think of the site architecture as
"core" (book search / book display) and "extended" (accounts,
favourites, tagging, etc). The "extended" interface could be enabled
or disabled by the webmaster or the user (or based on the language
selected on the portal page) ... more on the wiki:
http://www.jenzed.com/pgcawiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PortalPlan
Good feedback, Andrew - thanks for preventing me from riding madly off
in all directions. :)
jen.
On Apr 7, 2005 9:37 AM, Andrew Sly
I must admit that I am partial to the idea of a simple interface that anyone can come to and get the text he wants. I'm not particularly attached to the idea of presenting a text (like the German Projekt Gutenberg-DE) in one part of the screen and surrounding it with other information.
While we are dreaming, a dream of mine is to have a simple, basic, stable interface to the collection which can be translated into multiple languages. (Anything that changes too often would likely pose a problem in requiring updates to different language versions.)
Andrew
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jen Zed wrote:
As an update, my work on the site is coming along. I've got some simple wire-frames posted on the wiki: http://www.jenzed.com/pgcawiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Wireframes. I'd appreciate people's comments and ideas about how they'd like the site to look / work / etc. Please feel free to post thoughts either here or on the wiki.
Currently, I'm experimenting with Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) as our front-end and content-management system, but I've yet to arrive at the stage where I can validate that it will meet our needs. I expect that I'll have a prototype up within two or three weeks.