У суб, 15. 05 2010. у 10:48 +1200, Ivan M пише: > To keep things moving, I have created a new wiki section in the > website project where we can list ideas ... feel free to add your own. > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/2010_Redesign > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/2010_Redesign/Ideas >
Thanks Ivan. I think that while wiki is better for the outreach and keeping us all on track, mailing list is better for a dialog so I am sending my comments here. I am not a fan of pop-up menus on web pages, they can be hard to navigate and are mostly unusable by keyboard navigation. They also tend to look because of short width compared to the rest of a page elements. A double horizontal bar with second bar displayed on click can be a nice alternative. It is also easier to have navigation experience consistent as sub-pages can show the sub-bar by default. Than we could have third level navigation as a vertical block like the current left column. For a change, we can move it to the right as more and more sites are doing so. I like your suggestion for links in footer. This will give more space for descriptive links even it is for the same content as available in main navigation. It can also be useful to promote some sub-sub-pages as first class links in the footer. I am thinking why we do not put a "Contribute" menu item instead of "Development"? The other sound somehow scary (like it is only for developers). Issue Tracker can be used for new feature requests and for voting on issues, something that we should actively promote to more experienced users. After all there is a "Contribute"-like link in the current action items, why not promote it into main menu. What about adding a "Office suite" link. It is our main product. Your "Projects" link for projects list fit well under this item while other content could go into "Contribute". "Download" and sub-items could go under "Office suite" too, but we should also promote these items in a sidebar or as action items. It would be nice to have some metrics how many users clicks "Download" in the top menu bar compared to "Download" clicks in the action items. Can we add Google analytics event code just before 3.2.1 launch date to get some data? About could become "About community" (like in OpenOffice.org is both a product and a community) with subitems like "Participation" and "Governance". Currently about looks like a place for "everything else", take a look at http://about.openoffice.org/index.html I believe that sub menu structure for "Support" should not have a strong structure as the content under is so diverse. We should not forget "Documentation" or "Documentation wiki", there may be users looking for this item. Support can be more like a portal promoting many ways how one can get support. I see there is some progress on list about Support portal content but hopefully we can do even more to promote current resources and push users into creating new documentation in scope of this redesign. As a summary, let me state some different menu structure. I do not see it as better, but as a different idea that should be discussed, updated and merged with others. * News - Press releases - Blog planets - Newsletter * Office suite - Download! - Awards and reviews - Extensions - Templates - Clipart - Projects * Contribute - Ideas how to help - Issue tracker - Development * Support * Wiki * About community - Open source - Community vision - Organization and governance - Project leads - Language communities Kind regards, Goran Rakic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
