Hi David :) I prefer http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bbnG0Hny0SpccJIZsGp72A?feat=directlink because it has less information and looks prettier.
Sadly, that seems to be what people want. Information confuses people and seems to need to be on subsequent pages. Also the picture on http://test.libreoffice.org took ages to appear and people don't seem to have patience beyond a couple of milliseconds and when it appeared the first image was 'horribly' complicated. Isn't it a gif? Could it be less size byte-wise? By contrast competitors websites show almost nothing and give almost no information. We see pictures of smart people in suits looking at a flashy computer. We see pictures of grannies leaning over toddlers both engaged with whatever is going on on a more sensible looking computer. We see a young attractive 'housewife' sitting on over-large creamy coloured sofa either posing sexily or demurely (or both) and looking at a flashy laptop. If we ever see the screen then there is some simple pie-chart of bar-graph or sometimes they risk showing a line-graph (for business users). Personally i do like the narrower format because i have not yet followed 'everyone else' to widescreen. Also for me personally (probably fairly typically for a linux user) i do prefer having useful information right there fast without having to dig around for it and the picture is what i personally like as a linux-user because it show me useful stuff. The info was well written, compelling and succinct, telling me exactly the sorts of things that people ask whenever they find me using OpenOffice (one that still has the Sun logo). However, while it may be great for existing linux-users we are not typical of the general population out-there that we need to reach. I do think both are great and both do the job of easy access to the download. The text needs to be somewhere on the site and preferably just 1 click away or reached when the page is scrolled down, something easy. I would say keep the one we have already or switch to the one that is closest to completion whichever one that is. Regards from Tom :) PS this is only my opinion and i might be a little bitter and twisted nowadays ________________________________ From: David Nelson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 22 December, 2010 9:54:34 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status Hi Tom, :-) Interesting thoughts. ;-) But, actually, the site under discussion is http://test.libreoffice.org What are your thoughts on that one? David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
