Hi art and website folks,
Are there still people who definitely think that the action statements
approach is a bad approach? I feel like Graham, and to some extend I,
have been able to convince most of you, but please say it now if you
heartedly disagree with this approach, and please say why. To me the
convincing argument /for/ the action statement approach is as follows:
Basically there are many relatively experienced MS Office users out
there who don't have a clue about how to download and install something.
Furthermore, while other people may have quite some experience in
browsing, installing software is something relatively a small percentage
of the internet-connected people do. The main target group for this
redesign were exactly these users, which is probably the largest group
of potential new users. Guiding them carefully, using these action
statements, could help them a lot, it works reassuring.
It is demonstrated in the following designs, one of which partly won the
vote. But with the recent vote I didn't ask you to pay any attention to
the content, but only to pay attention to the style:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/Proposals#Action_statement_based
You could compare these designs to the designs listed at that page above
this heading. I reported to Louis (in private) already that if we agree
on the action statement based approach, then currently this screenshot:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/mwiki/images/6/66/Murb_homepageproposal1_homepage_normal.png
is the best design so far, on which we will base our future iterations,
when both homepage-content and style is considered. It a) is based on
Ivan's OOo minimalist and b) I felt we already kind of agreed now on the
action statement approach. Of course there is still the need for some
additional sub pages, but if we can agree on e.g. this design, or a
better one, that would already be a huge leap forward in the process.
Or am I pushing own opinion too much now? If so, please do say so
soon... we need to make progress! (and if you are 'pro' action
statements, and you see only negative replies, please share your views
too with the community, it is about getting our opinions aligned). Maybe
someone could also consider whether it adheres to the rough requirements
we wrote down here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/Requirements
g.,
Maarten
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