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Funny guy.
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No seriously, what parts specifically are cramped? And is it an intimidating wall of text (I suspect yes)?

If we end up with something we like, it could be used for Category pages too.
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Can you add a wee bit more white space between cells (sections)? That's what I meant.

And yeah, I like your overall format for more uses...
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Can you add a wee bit more white space between cells (sections)? That's what I meant.

And yeah, I like your overall format for more uses...
Yes, it's MY format. Those wikipedia people stole it with their time machine. Louses the lot of 'em.

Lemme see what I can do. I seem to have given the mistaken impression that I actually know anything about CSS... *sigh*
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That's excellent! I really like it. It's clean, navigable for bears and welcoming. A newbie with their shiney device will know where to go, and more experienced users too. Though at the moment the 'n900' support link just goes to a general nokia page, rather than the n900 specific one.

Though I could see huge rows breaking out over who gets to choose the QOTD.
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have you seen Maemo5 101 @ wiki?

http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?title=Maemo5_101

will add nokiaexperts - link to the page in couple of minutes.
 

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I've stolen the wikipedia front page design and mocked sometihng up here just to see how it looks.
Nice, good usage of descriptive icons although their sizes don't match.

If its wiki front page it should mention its a wiki? Or some kind of other name like documentation project or I don't know.

Because right now this statement is confusing:

Welcome to Maemo,
the open source community developing software around the Maemo platform
We have 648 articles
Am I not welcomed at Maemo.org front page as well? Are the forum or main page not articles as well?

On bottom QOTD should be one space to right for outlining. The outlining of Hot topics maybe a bit more to left (so matches more with content above it).

While I understand quick links on top right its a lot of text which is not good idea, but I don't know (yet) how to solve...
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have you seen Maemo5 101 @ wiki?

http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?title=Maemo5_101

will add nokiaexperts - link to the page in couple of minutes.
and i suggest browsing through http://wiki.maemo.org/Category:Beginners. i just added many links to new users - page from that category.
 

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OK, I've mucked about a bit and tried to wrangle the CSS into something that won't elicit too many follow-up complaints. Turns out Nested tables + CSS + wiki markup isn't elegant.

Still a lot of warts, but this is the limit of my web design fu. Feel free to edit in place or copy over to your own sub-page.

Note to self, tempted to redo it all in HTML markup...

Oh, and note to *: this is lurvely.
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Alright, we are getting there!

Two problems I see currently:

- Maintaining that intro page takes work every now and then. I would remove any dynamic data that needs to be introduced manually and I would go for a static page (fair enoug for an intro) that can be fed with dynamic content automatically.

- We have a maemo.org page with a lot of elements and now we aim to an Intro with also lots of elements... And yet still a new user won't get things clear after going through homepage and intro. And then the user will go to http://maemo.org/community/ and will get again plenty of elements with overlapping info... and still no clear simple picture of what is maemo.org all about and what is offered there.

Sorry for the lack of constructive ideas. I will try to provide them one f these days but before there are a couple of tasks I need to get out of the way.
 
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