On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:48, Eric Fernandez wrote: > I have begun to use the forum on a regular basis now. I'll try to answer > support questions. Mandrakeclub has to be a centralised place, and I have > some suggestions : > > - I think that the club needs better theme, better forum design. Why not > doing a Galaxy theme by default for the club, which would be the new default > theme. I think it is always good for a vendor site to have a "new skin" > sometimes, to show they are very awake and dynamic. Blue and white colours > are too contrasted and difficult to read. Use pastel colours, with icons > that are in the 9.1 distribution (MCC new icons are so nice !) Reorganise > buttons, news (so that news appear on top.) Some theme are even lacking some > links (aqua2 has no "forum" link on top !) Why not doing a "theme" > competition ?
Hate to say it but the easiest "theme" to read for me is the liquid theme. As for the forum... et al navigation is the roughest part. > > - I think there should be better forum organisation. We have still people > asking for support in the "guest" area. I think that forum should be > simplified, with support part and discussion part. And within these two > parts, restricted areas should be highlighted to show the people what they > would benefit by becoming members. For the moment, retricted areas are just > : one offtopic, news, documentation, development. If you want to make people > fancy becoming members, you should have something a little more "sexy" and > very highlighted (like integrating RPM on demand) > > - Why not integrate mandrakeexpert to the forum : a restricted part for > quick support. Maybe this would be a little complicated to manage use of > incidents units though. Or make mandrakeexpert a commercial place only and > leave free community support to the club. > > Eric > >
