Daniel Naber wrote: > Hi, > > I've planned for long to relaunch the LT homepage with a better design. > Now is the chance to finally do that. These are my *personal* ideas > about the future of the LanguageTool homepage. I'm looking for feedback. > > Our current homepage (http://languagetool.org) suffers from the > following problems: > > -looks overcrowded
I'm not so concerned about overcrowded. In fact I prefer most information on a page (as in the French http://www.languagetooll.org/fr) rather than popups as in the English English page. But it's a matter of preference. > -no nice, modern design Yes, we need someone with an artistic touch. But let's also keep it simple. > -all non-English languages are just second-class citizens, for example > they cannot easily be reached through the navigation bar Agreed. > -English doesn't have a language-specific page, with room for examples > > Also, but less important in my opinion: > > -it's not always clear what content belongs to the homepage, > community.languagetool.org, and the Wiki > -homepage, community.languagetool.org, and the Wiki have different > layout styles I'm sometimes confused myself where to look for things (in the link section, in the development link, in the wiki, ...) > -it makes use of a do-it-yourself PHP template system > > Proposed solution: > > -looks overcrowded: > -plan a navigation bar with only a few main items: Download, Languages, > Support, Developer > -move everything from the homepage to sub pages except the "try it > online" form and the navigation Not sure about this one (see my previous remark above all information on one page). > -no nice design: > -pay a professional designer to make a new design > -make a modern design but not so modern and stylish that it looks > outdated in a year again > > -all non-English languages are just second-class citizens: > -translate the cleaned-up homepage to all languages we support and make > sure the user is automatically redirected to the homepage that matches > their browser's default language (which is probably their native > language) Yes. I like web sites that honor the browser language settings. There are too few of such good behaved websites. Sometimes websites pick the language based on the IP location, which I find annoying when traveling. > -use Transifex for translations of short texts It's good that the localized page do not say exactly the same as the English page, as it is now. So Transiflex would not be suitable for that I think. But transiflex is OK for translating buttons, menu items etc. Regards Dominique ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
