2014/1/21 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org>: >> 1) Screenshots, screenshots, screenshots! >> >> Immediately when somebody visits libreoffice.org to find out about >> LibreOffice, they whould be presented with screenshots. In the >> carousel the first image should include screenshots so that people get >> a sense about what it would look like if they ran LibreOffice. When >> features are presented and explained, they should have screenshots to >> visualize the description. > > No. And by the way, have you checked out the website for Microsoft > Office or Mozilla? Because there are either no screenshots, or they are > stuck somewhere in a back menu.
We'll lots of other examples like Skype, Photoshop, VLC and Blender have screenshots on either directly on front page or on a prominent Features or About page. [...] >> 3) More facts, less marketing >> >> For example the main page has a paragraph "LibreOffice comes with a >> host of new features for its users as well as several important >> changes and improvements under the hood." It looks very good and I >> agree with the content, but in my experience people don't respond well >> to this kind of argumentation even in a marketing context. Rather >> mention a few features and deliver some facts of what LibreOffice >> actually does. I know, writing short and good text is difficult.. > > > This portion can of course be changed. But if anything, we should do > ten times more marketing, and less facts. We are getting bored to hell > with facts. People don't care about facts; they want something fun they > can use and understand as fast as possible. They also want to be part > of something, like a community, and they want meaning. Facts in place > of marketing could kill Free Software, I could swear it. Ok, maybe the term "less marketing" was a bad choice of words. I mean less fluff and more fact-based and convincing marketing. A very good example is http://www.blender.org/features/ which displays screenshots and facts (written with good marketing point of view). If MS Office users would read a similar page about LibreOffice they'd realize it is actully very feature full and the UI looks familiar and easy to use. - Otto -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
