Hi all, just for the record - there has been another proposal for a menu and the front page of the new website.
Some of you might know Nikash, who already worked within the OOo days on designs - and usually they are simply great :-) However, he wrote a very kind mail, proposed some changes, and published a website mockup: http://www.mail-archive.com/design@libreoffice.org/msg00217.html Cheers, Christoph Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2010, 12:24 +0100 schrieb Christoph Noack: > Hi Tom! > > Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2010, 10:33 +0000 schrieb Tom Davies: > > Hi David :) > > > > I prefer > > http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bbnG0Hny0SpccJIZsGp72A?feat=directlink > > because it has less information and looks prettier. > > > > Sadly, that seems to be what people want. Information confuses people and > > seems > > to need to be on subsequent pages. Also the picture on > > Well, there is no "the people" ... there are people having different > requirements and living/working in different environments. Some guys > want to have in-depth information in advance, some consume basic > information and just want to give things a try. > > Thus, it is not about hiding information, but to provide it step-by-step > - managing the concept what people can grasp. That is why I think that > we miss the requirements of quite some users at the moment ... > > > > http://test.libreoffice.org > > took ages to appear and people don't seem to have patience beyond a couple > > of > > milliseconds and when it appeared the first image was 'horribly' > > complicated. > > Isn't it a gif? Could it be less size byte-wise? > > Same for me ... > > > By contrast competitors websites show almost nothing and give almost no > > information. [...] > > > > I do think both are great and both do the job of easy access to the > > download. > > The text needs to be somewhere on the site and preferably just 1 click away > > or > > reached when the page is scrolled down, something easy. > > Yep. > > > I would say keep the one we have already or switch to the one that is > > closest to > > completion whichever one that is. > > I'd say ... whatever helps us to satisfy the needs of the majority of > our users. So even if it might take some additional work, it seems worth > the effort. > > > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > PS this is only my opinion and i might be a little bitter and twisted > > nowadays > > Sorry to hear that :-\ > > Cheers, > Christoph > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
