Hi Peter,
Thanks for your time to feedback. My comments inline.
Peter Tribble wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:47 PM, michelle olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I've drafted a feature spot for 2008.11 here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/content/home_page_draft17/
The other changes continue to be work in progress. I added some new
graphics, links, and updated landing pages to try to address concerns
from the prior review. Let me know what you think.
Thanks in advance for your help to improve this content.
Still looks awful to me.
I believe you are the only person who feels this way. If we count Shawn
as agreeing with you, I still have more reviewers who like this look
than those who do not. You want more running text, others feel strongly
that lots of running text on the home page is awful. I'll do my best to
strike a balance, knowing that I cannot please everyone all the time.
The buttons are all wrong. They look inconsistent with the rest of the site
design and branding. They aren't all the same size.
I'll work on this.
They push content
below the fold. In most browser configurations, one or more of the buttons
themselves will be below the fold.
Worst of all, they simply shouldn't be there. If you're going to have big
buttons like that they should go in one of the navigational panels where
they belong.
I disagree that these belong in the main navigation. These are unique
tasks that new folks can perform right away, that are relatively
friendly. It is far easier to do one of these things than to start a
project or even to edit a web page. (Even if you can't contribute a
package, you know right away that we care about the problem of limited
packages and that there is a plan you can get involved in.)
In the absence of other 'submit-something' technology, I'm doing what I
believe to be the next best thing, which is to highlight three things
folks can do right away without subscribing to and then crowing on a
mailing list (people do not like to have to do that).
And the User Groups and Defect buttons ought to be placed
prominently as part of the site architecture rather than pushed off the bottom
of the page in an area trying to explain what the project is about.
It should be obvious in first 10 seconds what it is all about and that
there are programming things you can do, people in your local area whom
you can meet, and a facility to report and track issues with the
software. We'll get there, I appreciate your help.
-Michelle
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