Ok, this is now done. Rather than “Stop” it now says the hopefully slightly less confusing “Take Notice,” and the text is otherwise as I proposed.
I agree that this is only a tiny step in a more general streamining of this whole process. Cheers, Gershom On June 26, 2015 at 11:29:25 AM, Mark Lentczner (mark.lentcz...@gmail.com) wrote: > Well - it isn't objectionable.... but it is, at best, a stop gap. > > Ultimately, what people want when they want to get Haskell installed is a > big button marked "Download" - that when pressed starts the download > immediately. This is true for beginners and seasoned users alike. It is > true on all web sites for all things. > > Every link we put in their way looses some percentage, and increases the > frustration of others. This change makes it: > > > 1) Google search GHC > > 2) "Latest news...", search and find Download in left bar, click > > 3) "Stop! ...", click downloads > 4) "You've got options ...", click "Platform > 5) "Download button", click > > > (That last one is actually another click and page load, but we'll be > putting the download buttons on the first Platform page in this round.) > > The Platform team built and proposed a page for #3 (the > haskell.org/downloads) page, that included the Download button for Platform > on the detected users's OS, and had top bar links to other options. The > sequence should be this: > > 1) Google search GHC > > 2) "GHC is cool... Get it with a full Haskell distribution", click > > 3) (on haskell.org/downloads): "Download Haskell Platform... Download > button", click > > A page for #3 was built by the Haskell Platform team that included links to > other options. You can preview it here: > > http://45.55.156.136:8000/demo-3200/download-plan-a2.html > > > — Mark > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users