Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi *, > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:47:18AM +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:49:20AM +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> > [...] >> >> - There is some demand that the application links on the start page >> >> should point to project pages addressing both users and contributors. >> > >> > And here the problem starts: The pages that shall be linked are not >> > available yet. (in a suitable presentation) >> >> Correct; the point here is that we (the project leads) want to have a >> basic agreement that the time to bring these pages into a "suitable >> presentation" isn't wasted because afterwards nobody will link to them >> from the start page. > > IMHO the time is not wasted even when they are not linked from the > startpage directly.
Depends. I wouldn't like to write something for people that never find the page. But as it seems there is no objection against avoiding this by making it easier to find the (currently only developer oriented) project pages, e.g. by providing links on the (marketing oriented) application pages. That's enough for me. >> >> Another point I would like to rise: could we have a more prominent link >> >> to the "contribute" page, perhaps equally in visibility and size to the >> >> "get OOo" or the "Native Language" button? >> > >> > More prominent than in the toptabs? >> >> Yes. In the same size and visbility as "Get...". We want to put more >> emphasize on the community. Community is get *and* give. The "get" >> button is already there. > > Hmm. contributing.ooo already is among the top 50 pages - the pages that > are more popular are basically only the portal pages (www. and a couple > of NL-projects) and the corresponding download-pages (and some special > pages like login/mailing list) and the product pages. But is there any problem to have this additional button? > I'd prefer one button - approx. the size of the current buttons - maybe > instead of the seagull image two additional buttons: > * one for the OOo-Office-suite products > * one for the "developer"-products Could be a good start. > > I thought of a desk for the Suite products-button and maybe gears or > bricks for the developer-button. > Comments? Sounds good for me. Let's see something. :-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
