Thanks for bringing this up on the list Philippe. See more in-line...
On Dec 11, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi,
Trying to fill out some description form for Chandler on some
French website (http://wiki.framasoft.info/PropositionNotice/
Chandler), I stumbled on some rough edges using
chandlerproject.org. Here's a list and proposals:
- Donation page: It's amazing how deep and hidden our donation page
is. The only way to find it is through the FAQ. Proposal: have a
link up on the landing page.
Should this be somewhere prominent at the top of the 'Get Involved'
page?
- FAQ/Features/Known Issues/Release Notes: There is a tangle of
names and little consistency: some pages link to others, some
don't, so it's hard to navigate. Proposal: have all of those pages
listed in the left hand panel from the landing page, have all of
them link to each other in a consistent way from the left hand
panel (the banner of clickable words is weird)
Yea, this gave me a lot of headaches when we were redesigning the
landing page/wiki nav for Preview. I think
I hesitate to throw all of these things in the sidebar because I
think we need to do a bit more layering / prioritization for people
coming to the landing page for the first time.
'Release Notes' is really a sub-page of 'Features'. 'Troubleshooting
Chandler' is a sub-page of FAQ and Known Issues.
I think what makes the nav most confusing is that the 'Get Started
Guide' is just a separate entity unto itself. I wonder if we could
simplify things a lot by taking it down for now, try to answer the
basic questions in the FAQ and focus our energies on a 'Tour of
Chandler' page. (See below.)
- Screenshots: They are currently tucked at the top of the features
page. I think they should have their own page and, like the others,
be linked from the landing page on the left panel.
I think we can partially ameliorate this by labeling the blob of
images on the right-hand side of the landing page. I will mock
something up.
- Tips/Hints page: Despite all of these pages, we don't have a page
to add simple and useful hints/tips for Chandler. Proposal: create
such a page and, again, link it from the left panel.
How about a new 'Tour of Chandler' page which includes:
+ Better demos
+ Screenshots
+ List of Top Ten Tips
+ Link to Feature List
Thoughts?
- Philippe
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