Hi Narayan, *, that's what I'm also saying (or trying) from the moment I joined the Libreoffice Community,
Am 02.02.2011 um 10:56 schrieb Narayan Aras: > > Hi all, > >> From: comme...@traduction.biz > >> I just posted an expanded version of the "Why for Home?" page. >> >> There's quite a bit more text in there. With someone's comment of >> "text, text, text..." still ringing in my ears, i feel I'd better >> explain my thinking a bit. > > :) Ok that "someone" was me, and I wrote all why pages originally. > > Well, I am surprised that no Graphic Designer is attached to the website > project. He tries ;) (me) > I tried to bring in an excellent Graphic designer, but it seems external > graphic designers are not welcome until SC or some other team gives him a > thorough cavity search. So I dropped the idea. > > At present, the website looks exactly like a wiki (and thence the remark > "text text text..."). > Apart from the LibO logo (which is a mixed up thing, as logos go), there are > no graphics at all. > All pages look exactly the same (Home page, L1, L2...), with no visual > differential (with color, layout, fonts, breaks...) > The screen space is not divided according to graphic design principles. > The site has no tagline, search or site map (three basic things). Short version a book which nobody's gonna read. > It is assumed that the visitor would be interested enough to stay and soak up > all that text (and text and text and...) > He will look through all pages till he finds what he wants (no map, no > search). Every user (not depending on his history) doesn't read websites. He scans. Even a IT-Guy for an Enterprise doesn't read on the web. I'm reading for the moment some books and I'm gonna make a little review for you all so you can see what you have to put in your mind when you're writing for the web. > We do have a wiki for LibO. So the website should be devoted to main points, > and for details, the visitor should be taken to the Wiki. +1 > Compare the site with http://www.openoffice.org/ and > http://why.openoffice.org/ > I am not saying that OOo site is ideal, but at least it has many visual > elements to hold the interest of the visitor. > > Websites are designed by Graphic Designers, not Engineers. > The text is written by copywriters, not manual-writers (the different is in > slant: marketing vs engineering). Papercopywriters <> Webcopywriters > Therefore we need graphic designers to redesign the pages. > And copywriters to brush up (and snip away) what we have written. > > **** > @Role of SEO in success of LibO: > > Since LibO is a OpenOffice fork, we actually do not need much help from SEO. > I have already added the metatags to most pages, which should be sufficient > to start with > > There is a separate page for Libo at Wikipedia, which also should be a big > start. > Wikipedia also has Libo in the first place in Open Source apps list > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_applications). > > A major remaining step is registration with Google ASAP. > Then hits will ramp up within 2-3 months, with careful tuning of metadata. > ****** +1 Google NEVER reads the whole website. It's scanning the whole. But for the SEO only some bytes from the beginning are important! > Now that SEO (machine reading/spidering) is out of the way, we must > concentrate on HUMAN readers. HUMAN and for possible new users of Libreoffice > How can we hold THEIR interest?? > > We need to emphasize how LibO is different from the other versions. > That should explained prominently at the website, in terms of (a) philosophy > and (b) features. > > For example, Novell version of OpenOffice boasts of compatibility with MSO. > Oracle version of OOpenOffice boasts of low download costs because of > patch-based updates. > > We also should position the product in this cluster of "apparently same" > products. > > -Narayn Just my 2 cents! Mike (Houbsi) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
