Talk:Compute Canada Wiki

What structure should this front page have once there are a lot of content links? One scheme that has occurred to me is to use these headings:

• Systems and Services (e.g. "GP1", "Globus", ...)
• How-to Guides ("Intro to Linux", "Moving data around", "Parallel Programming", ...)
• Subject Guides ("Molecular Dynamics", "Fluid Dynamics", ...)

As you can see these divisions may overlap. (Consider "Globus" versus "Moving data around".) However, links between content pages should ameliorate this: "Systems and Services --> Globus" might lead to a short, technical description of the service, with a link out to the same page pointed to by "How-to-Guides --> Moving data around". My philosophy for the front page is that it should be complementary to the Search box, in that it tries to guide the user toward the right information no matter how the question is formed in the user's mind:

• "I want to know about ..."
• "How do I...?"
• "I'm working on..."

I have to spend more time staring at existing consortium front pages to see what this misses, if anything.

Ross Dickson (talk) 21:04, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Another thing to consider in all this is what role the left side bar will play Chris Geroux (talk) 15:08, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Globus is a file transfer service