Wikidot Dashboard project
Dashboard project
- Anyone can submit a site of interest
- Sites are categorized by parent section
- forum, discussion (e.g. community, forum), red
- knowledgebase (e.g. snippets, handbook), blue
- formal specifications (e.g. doc), black
- reusable pieces (e.g. themes, packages, includes, irongiant), green
- applications (e.g. youreview, havemycv, urcheatz.com), purple
- news, blogs (e.g. blog.wikidot.com), silver
- admins can make new sections, obviously
- Site entry is: url, description, and auto-generated thumbnail
- Site entries are rated and tagged arbitrarily by users
For dashboard sites:
- explanation of site or section
- what kind of membership
- who can edit, who not
- names of admins
- for getting help
- The main dashboard page redirects to 'user:username'
- how do we do the redirect?
- where do we get the current user name?
- what if the page does not yet exist?
- not-logged users go to user:anonymous
- User page
- if page does not create, user is prompted to create it
- new page gets default content
- page content is wrapped in standard template
- Customizability
- theme can be selected per page via CSS module
- all sites are displayed via include pages that cannot be edited
- however, arguments passed to includes can be modified
- and includes can be added/removed/reorganized
- this prevents people really breaking things
- there is also a "reset to default" option (delete page, and start again)
- mix of smaller and larger icons for more / less rated sites
- Layout
- layout could look like new themes.wikidot.com layout
- grid of thumbnails with popup detail
- organized by most-popular, most recent, and by section
- background of thumbnails is color coded section
page revision: 10, last edited: 05 Oct 2009 16:38