[Developers] Website: example collection

[Hans Julius Skaug]

John,

Yes, I will take a lead on this, but moving all the examples
may take time. And yes, it is good to take
this as a part of the bigger descussion about web site design.

I am in favor of placing the examples on a top level,
but a second level is also OK. An equally important
question is how to create a model taxonomy. My suggestion is
to use fairly wide topics, like differential equations, growth curves, etc. 
I imagine 10 - 20 topics on this level. The sublevels are harder
to imagine.

The alternative is to create topics that are closer
to the inner working of ADMB: funnels, random effects,
mcmc etc. I my opinion that is more natural in the user manual,
but not so much at the website.

Suggestion: use the former taxonomy, and lest every posted model have
a short ingress telling which ADMB features are being used. 
People put models on their own web-pages, and post
the ingress (containing and url) to the mailing list, where it is picked
up by us (me) and posted on our web site. At a later stage
the example can be fully uploaded to our website.

Hans
  

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Sibert [mailto:sibert at hawaii.edu] 
>Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 5:50 PM
>To: Hans Julius Skaug
>Cc: developers at admb-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Developers] Website: example collection
>
>Seems like a good idea to me (especially if Hans is willing to take on 
>the job).
>
>Before creating yet another tab, though, it is worth 
>considering whether 
>the current organization of material is what we want. We are 
>creating a 
>new "look" for admb-project.org which should be available for 
>inspection 
>in a couple of weeks. It will eliminate the tabs (which many feel are 
>rater clunky) in favor of a more conventional menu list on the 
>left. You 
>can see a preliminary version of the new site 
>http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/Illust/admb_dev/admb-project-template.htm 
>(It has change a lot since this version, but the layout will be 
>similar.) So now is a good time to think about the 
>organization of stuff 
>on the site.
>
>John
>
>Hans Julius Skaug wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Examples (with admb files) are scattered around the website, 
>and are not
>> very visible. This issue has been raised from time to time. 
>>
>> What about creating an Examples tab at the top level (along 
>with Documentation, Courses, etc)?
>> Second: agree on some kind of taxonomy of models. Third: 
>maintain a list of
>> pointers to webpages where people put up their own models on 
>their own webpages.
>>
>> If we agree, and the tab is created, then I will take on 
>moving/organizing all the random effects examples.
>>
>> Hans
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>University of Hawaii at Manoa
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