Rename "Handbooks" tab to "Documentation", fold "Community" into "Support"

Karldied said: I recommend changing the name of the master tab on drupal.org from "Handbooks" to "Documentation."

I both second and third this motion. I cannot begin to count how many times I have stared at the label on that tab and wondered who would actually click on it if they were looking for documentation or support help.
+1 for me.
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Senpai

We already have a space problem withthe tabs. Documentation is a much longer word then Handbooks. Not mentioning the thousands of references to handbooks both on d.o. and the web.

Moving to webmasters for discussion there.

I understood that. However I am not sure that Community and Support mean the same things. The tabs for Community was added after people complained that we had no mention of our international community nor any place for such mention.

Well, no. That person found the handbooks just fine, just wanted to know if there was a more definitive resource than the community-maintained documentation. The stuff sepeck's working on would qualify, I think.

If space is the primary concern, one other way to maybe solve this is ditch the tab altogether and use the "Support" tab as a centralized "jump-off" page that lists all the various resources, including the handbooks. That would eliminate the nice one-click nature of getting straight to the docs, however.

Actually in reading the full thread, the suggestions at #3 seem to make sense. Except for the term "Documentation handbooks." Um. Ew. That's like saying "Programming development" or something... I'd keep the term just "handbooks"; people are smart, they'll figure it out. :P

Community seems to fit under Support well, and duplicates several of the links. If I came to the site for the first time, I would expect "Community" to either be the forum, or else a page listing all the various developers with bios or whatever.

I agree that folding the community and support tabs into one is a good idea. I always wondered what is the difference, and now that I compare them, they are really hugely overlapping. Then renaming the Handbooks tab to "Documentation" is a no-brainer. It is also kind of strange to have the "Contact" tab before the Community tab... I am used to search for a contact tab either at the end of menus or at the bottom of pages.

Do you have a proposal for how to integrate the two, Community and Support, into one page? I agree there is over lap but the community page was added because of complaints that finding finding 'community' resources was hard and would require editing and word smithing. I haven't had time to do more then glance at it, decide it would take a serious bit of editing and concentrate on more pressing issues.

Adjusted weight on Contact so it now appears on the end.

The argument 'no-brainer' in support of renaming is somewhat lacking in 'weighty' consideration however, now that I am reminded of this request I will consider it again in context of the updates I am currently working on for the documentation pages.

Ok. I spent some time and collapsed the very little content in the Community page into Support. Unpublished the Community page. Re-ordered the menu links.

I shall think more on Documentation vs Handbooks. Maybe just Docs.

Docs++, but only if space is a killer issue. Documentation is far better, because it looks like "Stuff that helps me" in almost any language.

Great that the page merge worked well. I would vote for "Documentation", as it is much more cleaner for foreign language speakers, and also Drupal has a tradition not to abbreviate stuff in the source code, menus, help or documentation.

Also, now that we're short a tab, we can afford to be verbose here.

Well, sort of. As it is now in 800x600 it all lines up as originally intended. If you do it as Documentation then it's juuuuust a character to long and wraps the tabs.

I surveyed a few other projects and they use either Docs or something else entirely (i.e. Help). Let me check for alternatives for a few more days before I concede and cave in.

One character? Rename "Downloads" to "Download" :) I'm not sure that "Download" is a noun, anyway.

Firebug says it works....

It's a perfect 800 x 600 at what font size? How do you know what all the users are doing with their fonts? For me, it looks fine. Or it doesn't. Depending on whether I have a minimum font size set in my browser.