Patterns in Information-Lookup Sites - rethinking-cpan

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G. Wade Johnson

More options Apr 13, 5:17 pm

From: "G. Wade Johnson" <wjohn...@anomaly.org>

Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:17:00 -0500

Subject: Re: [rethinking-cpan] Patterns in Information-Lookup Sites

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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:16:31 +0300

Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote:

> As promised I started working on patterns in Information-Lookup Sites:

> http://xrl.us/bjb3f

> A lot of it has to do with the UI, but most of it also has to do with
> part of giving a better experience.

> Feel free to send "svn diff"'s, etc. You can also register at
> berlios.de and I'll add you to the project.

Although the quick interface stuff is very important, I suspect that
some form of "expert help" interface will also be needed. Many of the
problems people will come to CPAN to solve won't be equivalent to "find
a good book on cooking on Amazon". For many cases, the immediate
gratification interface will be best. But, for other cases...

Andy suggested a "question and answer" type interface. Several people
have pointed out some kind of Cookbook will be useful as well.

Maybe your list could provide an area for more "expert help" type
interfaces as well? I wonder where we could find examples that work
like this?

G. Wade

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