One more design question.
The both download buttons have now a hover over effect. They are
displayed inverted.
So, what do think is better as permanent design?
- Go back as it was before:
Light background, dark border, dark text
- Go with the new inverted look:
Dark background, light border, light text
- Leave it as it now, to have both is perfect.
Please tell me. :-)
Thanks
Marcus
Am 05/30/2014 12:03 AM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
OK, here is another update:
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html
What was updated?
- Disabled the old green box for now. Put the focus to the new.
- Using the $NL_LANG variable in "index.html" will pre-set a language
instead of using the browser-guessed language.
- Added hint text - directly below the headline - that the download
comes from Sourceforge.
- Added data for 4.0.1 and 4.0.0, so all 4.x versions are working.
- The 2 links with icons got a cursor with "help" sign.
- When choosing not fitting selections, this is shown to the user with a
hint text what the alternative is.
Then 2 download buttons got a cursor with "not allowed" sign.
Examples:
- Mac OS X 64-bit and AOO 4.0.1 or AOO 4.0.0
- Mac OS X 32-bit and AOO 4.1.0
- Hebrew and AOO 4.0.1
- When browsing with an unsupported OS (that means, other than Windows,
Linux and Mac) then the user gets a hint text that this is not
supported and what to do as alternative.
Then 2 download buttons got a cursor with "not allowed" sign.
What is next?
- Do we want to offer AOO 3.4.1 as last stable 3.x release?
- Updating the "Full vs. Langpack" text in separate window.
- Updating the "analyze.html" webpage to use it as "broken link
reporting tool".
- Separate code and strings.
Then it will be easier to use the same download webpage on all
localized websites, get the same look & feel everywhere but with the
freedom to translate the text.
Testing:
- Testing via Browsershots.org is somewhat challenging. Often the
requests are expiring before the screenshots are ready.
And still no IE available. :-(
But it looks good so far on Windows, Linux and Mac with Firefox,
Chrome, Opera and Safari.
Do you still have some more suggestions?
Thanks :-)
Marcus
Am 05/19/2014 12:47 AM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
This weekend just a little update as I was not able to do more work
(healthy problem):
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html
- The [Reset] button is gone.
- Styled the 3 select boxes as the default look & feel is, hm, just
default. ;-)
- Styled the both download buttons more eye-catching. To keep it simply
I've intentionally avoided to use graphics as I think a text button is
better suited here.
- The icons and links for "full install vs. langpack info" and "Report
broken link" were moved to the sub-green box. Because it's terrible
difficult to keep the text and link status correctly updated for
different selected values.
Marcus
Am 05/04/2014 06:37 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
Another update, seems this weekend I've my productive phase: ;-)
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html
What was done:
- Grey box:
- Bye, bye grey color - hello green freshness.
- The select boxes are prefilled with the browser guessed data.
- The information link has now a (i) icon.
- Added a "Report broken link" - pointing to the debug webpage.
The icon alone is maybe not meaningful enough, therefore an
additional text link.
(Of course the debug webpage needs further work to really work as
report function.)
- All not primary important data are now in the sub-box.
Now it looks more clean.
- Green box:
- All not primary important data are now in the sub-box.
Now it looks more clean and the focus is set for downloading only.
- Links:
- I've moved and deleted links and also adjusted the headlines.
- In the nav bar as well as in the colored boxes.
- Of course it's just a suggestion and can be discussed/changed.
What is not yet working:
- The version drop-down-box has still no effect for others than 4.1.0.
It's a bigger effort as I've to take into account every
available build for every release in the past.
- The [Reset] button is now not working as expected, however maybe
it's indeed no longer necessary?
What do you think?
What are the next steps:
- Make the version drop-down-box work for older releases.
- Improve the styling of the both download links.
- Combine the both green boxes.
- And further suggestions from you.
Thanks in advance for testing. :-)
Marcus
Am 05/03/2014 12:41 AM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
I've done some further work.
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html
What is working:
- Filesizes are shown for selected full install + langpack.
- Checksum links are shown for selected full install + langpack.
- When choices are done a little help icon is shown. Click on it to get
to a help text for "full install vs. langpack".
- Some release data is shown like in the green box.
What is not yet working:
- The version dropdown box has no effect yet but it shows already how
it could work (likely).
- I've not tested with all browsers. So, maybe something is not
working.
What are the next steps:
- Reduce the additional links in the green box and re-work in the right
hand nav bar - delete duplicates, change order/positions, delete if
not needed here, etc.
In general, this should result in a clean-up.
- Make the version drop-down box work to choose from older releases.
After that I'll publish a new update to the webpage and go on with your
further comments and suggestions.
So, please have a look and don't hesitate to comment.
Thanks
Marcus
Am 04/29/2014 12:40 AM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
Thanks a lot for your input.
A few of them (delete some obviously not needed text, make the choice
order of the drop-dwn boxes irrelevant) are already committed. But the
most need more time.
Please don't expect to have this full-featured for the AOO 4.1.0
release. I need more time to do all this. Luckily the need work-free
days are coming. :-)
Marcus
Am 04/27/2014 08:19 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
Hi all,
while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term
problem:
- Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy
- Downloading a different file than the offered is not
Via the big table on the "other.html" is now easy to maintain for us
but
has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex.
Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main
download webpage:
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html
Please don't look too close to look & feel - sure the grey color is
not
the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure.
For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down
boxes
and the then created links below them.
What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general?
Or do you have complete different thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Marcus
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