The Problem

For a brand new visitor who is evaluating CMS systems, Tiki presents an ugly face. Although Tiki packs more out-of-the-box features than nearly any other system, many first-time visitors are immediately put off by the look of the tw.o site.

For example, compare the tw.o home with:

• http://joomla.com/
• http://www.mamboserver.com/
• http://plone.org
• http://wiki.mindtouch.com
• http://www.impresscms.org/
• http://www.silverstripe.com/
• http://framework.zend.com/
• http://www.polldaddy.com/
• http://www.squarespace.com/
• http://www.futurelab.org.uk/

It is time to "clean up" tw.o....

The (Proposed) Solution

1. Clean up the primary tw.o domain. This should be for new visitors only. Our first move should be to pick a snazzy, beautiful theme. Gary has done some fabulous work here...

2. The new landing page should have the following primary areas:

• Get TW
  • Download
  • Installation stuff
  • Testing on opensource.com
• Learn about TW
  • Recent TW news
  • About the TW project/community
  • links to Demos
  • links to Tutorials
  • links to FAQs
• Help Others
  • links to the forum
  • links to the tw community (user pages)
  • links to Demos
  • links to Tutorials
  • links to FAQs
• Read Docs
  • links to doc.tw.o
  • links to FAQs
• Develop TW
  • Request a feature
  • Log a bug
  • Submit your code
  • Link to dev.tw.o

3. Secondary menu:

• Tiki News
  • Read the latest
  • Submit an item
• Featured Tiki
  • See the featured site
  • Submit a new site
• Tiki Community
  • edu.tw.o
  • themes.tw.o
  • maps.tw.o
  • etc.

4. Move all UserPages to a separate subdomain (maybe community.tw.o ?)

5. Move all doc pages to doc.tw.o, as Xavi (and others) are currently doing).

6. Allow a "distributed search" from tw.o (to search the other subdomains)

• The search results page now has direct links to continue the search on other TW.o domains.

7. Add a nice & updated video about basic tiki installation, configuration and usage.

• This could/should be linked from the Get Started and Learn more pages (as part of the demos & tutorials).

8. Your idea could be here.

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Sample

Sample of proposed TW.o home page.

This uses the Andreas09 theme — it is very clean. Do you have a better idea?

Things I would like to modify:

• Make the tools menu display always (instead of the drop-down).
• Add a montage of photos to the top header bar. Lots of nice, free photos on http://www.sxc.hu/. I'll start uploading some here.

The Schedule

(Unless you set deadlines, nothing ever happens!)

• Today — Aug 1
  Collect ideas, prompt discussion
• Aug 1 — Aug 15
  Based on ideas, begin creating mockups and demos
• Aug 15 — Aug 22
  Present final proposal, live demo, etc. to TW.o Community for final comments/voting
• Aug 22 — Aug 31
  Begin moving pages, creating content, etc.
• Sep 1
  Re-launch of TW.o