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@dcsobral dcsobral commented Nov 1, 2011

I'm not really suggesting importing this as is. Mostly, this is just to call attention to some sample content for the FAQ section I'm proposing.

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I've skimmed through each of the FAQs you've added- they each look great!

I can pull them in and tweak the formatting a bit- no problem. For now, we could just keep them as a list in the Tutorials section.

Though we should also experiment with this idea of having an entire section devoted to these types of popular questions. I had suggested in the feedback/suggestions tab on docs.scala-lang.org that we could name the new section "Scala FAQs", "FAQs", "Popular Questions", or whatever else, and have a box on the homepage which statically displays, say 4 or 5 of these questions, randomly chosen, upon page load. Of course, open for discussion.

Regardless, it could always be a next step, and we could keep these in Tutorials for now.

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Some FAQ entries to play around with layout. Some updates to the formatting to follow.
@heathermiller heathermiller merged commit 94970f8 into scala:gh-pages Nov 1, 2011
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dcsobral commented Nov 1, 2011

I have two concerns. First, it isn't obvious that a FAQ is inside "Tutotrials". Second, the questions don't show up on the Tutorials page itself -- unless I should move them into a "FAQ" tutorial page?

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Sure- of course it's not obvious that they're inside Tutorials, I only suggested that as a temporary solution. In my previous message, I mentioned that we should experiment with the idea of having them in their own section, name to be discussed, and then feature them on the home page as well. I was waiting for your thoughts before going ahead and reorganizing things that way.

The second point- questions don't show up on the tutorials page- the questions are the titles of each page, and they're listed directly underneath the "Scala for XYZ programmers" box. Perhaps I don't understand your question/concern?

(Btw, please force-refresh- I've made a few changes to your original pull)

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dcsobral commented Nov 1, 2011

Oh, yes, that's the way I think we should go (separate section). I see how you have changed the layout, and I think it will do for now. It was my original pull request that was too ugly to be made publicly available.

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