Ok, I've been here since the beginning yet I'm totally lost when browsing this site. I know that alot of effort have been put in organizing the content but I still feel it's a total mess. For example, there's like 4 to 5 nodes about the upcoming elections distributed between articles, forum and wiki.

Anyway, Put yourself in the place of somebody who knows nothing about GNU/Linux visting the website for the first time (a potential EGLUG user). I think he'll be distracted.

What he needs to see first are links to the following:

1) A very brief discription of GNU/Linux.

We could use one of the zillion good introductions found on the web.

2) Links to the rules and the about us

3) A guide on how to use the website and the IRC channel.

• Content distribution description:

Explaining how and why the content is organized into articles, wiki and forums i.e what's the use of each. (I personally need that)

• Techincal descritpion:

• The wiki syntax Howto and formatting tips
• The IRC/XChat Howto (just because I wrote it)
• How to tease na6oosh
• How to search the website
• A link to the Glossary and explaining the hovering effect
• The usage of the user menu.

4) Where to Get GNU/Linux

Few last points to talk about

• We can put all the above links in one "New to EGLUG?" page or better, a "New to EGLUG?" horizontal bar with just the main four links and have four separate pages corresponding to each link.

• What about a site map? Even if we don't create a site map every single page on this website should have an explicit link in an appropiate place. For example, I couldn't get to the glossary except by typing http://www.eglug.org/glossary in the address bar.

• Content should be navigatable by two ways, according to format categories ( whether it's an article, book, wiki ... etc) and according to the content itself regardless whether it's a damn article or wiki.

One last off topic thing, consider this part of my elections campgain (although that wasn't why I wrote it).

And remember my campgain slogan,

Vote for NewComer, because he understands the newcomer.