release documentation index page

[Dougie Richardson]

Matthew East wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Adam Sommer <asommer70 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Several member of the Server Team were wondering if we could update the
>> http://help.ubuntu.com/releas_number/index.html to list the top level of the
>> Server Guide as well as the Desktop documentation.  This would help make the
>> documentation more prominent for users new to Ubuntu Server Edition, and
>> help to advertise the server edition itself.
>>
>> Attached is an index.html of what was proposed.  Feedback is appreciated.
>>     
>
> I do agree that it would be helpful to make the server documentation
> more prominent on help.ubuntu.com. However, I don't think the proposed
> index.html is the right way to do it - it makes the page very long and
> there is much too much scrolling down.
>
> I think we can get a better solution if the frontpage is revamped a
> bit. What I'd like to see is a better design so that the non-desktop
> documents (server, switching, install, about-ubuntu) use the right
> hand space on the page. Dougie began some work on this before the 8.10
> release but I haven't followed through with it. If we use the right
> hand space properly, it might be possible to have expandable /
> clickable links so that clicking on the Server button would show a
> drop down with the different sections of the guide.
>
> I'd be very interested in hearing more ideas about this, in particular
> from anyone willing to work on this.
>   
Hi Matthew,

Like you said, we didn't get to take this any further and it would be 
nice to.  I'm busy this week so if someone is available to take this on 
that would be great.

Cheers,

Dougie