Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi Ingrid, *,
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:26:39PM +0100, Ingrid Halama wrote:
Working on the 'project' page for Chart in OOo I would like to get
interested people there more easily.
So far it is really difficult to find this page. You need to click on
projects. There you need to choose 'Accepted Projects' from a not self
explaining list. Then you need to choose 'Graphic Applications' from a
longish not self explaining list. Ah - then you find the 'Chart
Application' link in the text. I think a lot of interested people will
not find that complicated way.
Yes, that path is too complicated and surely has to be improved, but the
solution you proposed is not the best one IMHO.
As other have pointed out, the Products are end-user related. Having a
Chart-icon there is not a problem, but the page that will be loaded when
the user clicks that icon should get the end-user related info. (the
"marketing blabla")
Others have requested to add a "Development" button back to the toptabs.
My position towards this did not change: If you can provide a nice entry
page that can be linked to, then I'm all for it. But
development.openoffice.org isn't really a nice page. It wouldn't help
adding the chart module or others there, the visitors still will be
confused.
development.openoffice.org is a really bad example. It is a huge,
unstructured list of links. I think a redesign would be great.
Good entry points and navigation paths are important and we shouldn't
think to much in the project structure. Projects are not so important
for the user of the page (from my point of view). Important is the way
of navigation and good cross links to other more user|developer oriented
stuff where necessary. We always have both groups for a specific
application area, combine the stuff. We probably don't want to have a
star structure where you decide early where to go. It should be possible
to go sidewards and it shouldn't be a must to go back to start first.
Juergen
If however there was a page similar to the contributing one (i.e. with a
clean entry point from where you can navigate deeper to the area that
is of interest for you), then I see no problem in adding that link back.
For the meantime, adding an alias http://chart.openoffice.org might make
it more obvious for people already a bit familiar with the OOo websites
(how else should a user know that it is part of graphics?)..
ciao
Christian
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