MDN/Archives/MDCv05

Goal

Improve stability and user experience for the current MDC website. Specifically:

1. Fix major bugs in MindTouch Deki
2. Improve site functionality in a few areas, including search, user accounts, and editing
3. Reorganize the home page to better serve our developer communities
4. Establish a solid foundation for future MDN conversion/development

Areas of Improvement

1. Improve Search
2. Prevent Comment/Account Spam
3. Better SEO

New Features

1. Social Media: Promote all dev channels on Twitter and from blogs
   1. Hacks, Addons Blog, Labs Blog, Mobile Blog
   2. "Mini-Planet" on MDC for Dev related posts
2. Newsletters
   1. Add links to subscription/archives + descriptions for all about: newsletters
3. Surveys
   1. Add an area for pointing to current surveys and publishing results of past surveys
4. Surface most popular and new content
   1. Top articles (most viewed)
   2. Top searches
   3. Recently added/modified articles

Firefox 3.6 Content

• Link to new HTML 5 page (page content: "Staying ahead of the curve" chart, HTML 5 resources (standards, tutorials), MDC doc, demos/videos)
• Documentation for web developers (sheppy)
• Link to the hacks demo gallery (3.6 tag)
• Link to top 3.6 related hacks posts