[OpenID] Improving the openid.net website

[Martin Atkins]

Hi Colin,


Colin Hogben wrote:
> Hi,
> As a newcomer to OpenID, I was interested in what it would take to add 
> OpenID support to a number of websites that I maintain.  My first 
> impressions of the openid.net website was not that good - there did not 
> seem to be any information targeted at site owners / webmasters (as 
> opposed to developers).  There were a number of other things that I was 
> less than impressed with.  Rather than sulk, I've collected my thoughts 
> into a wiki page:  http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Website_Issues .  I 
> hope I don't appear too negative - I just want the site to be improved 
> to help spread OpenID adoption.  If people agree with any of the issues, 
> it would be nice if they could be addressed.

I'd like to echo what Scott said and thank you for taking the time to 
put this together. Many of the things you've mentioned seem obvious now 
you've pointed them out, but I certainly can't claim to have thought of 
some of them myself.

The lack of a section for "site owners" is a very good point. Presumably 
-- after including the obvious content such as why a site owner might 
want to support OpenID in the first place -- this would take the form of 
a list of various content management systems and similar software which 
supports OpenID, with instructions for how to set up OpenID in each.

You were also far too nice about the wiki style. That wiki style was a 
rushed conversion from the already-rushed old openid.net style. I think 
the plan is to make it use a style similar to the current openid.net at 
some point, but current efforts are focused on getting the main site right.