On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > Sorry for top posting, but I think we've discussed this enough to have > a sense of what our constraints are. > > A quick proposal: > > Let's start from this page: > > http://www.openoffice.org/product/ > > That is linked to prominently from the homepage and the top navigation bar. > > I propose adding a new section to the left navigation panel, between > "Products" and "More". The new section will be called "Platforms" and > will link to four pages: > > 1) Windows > > 2) Mac > > 3) Linux > > 4) Ports > > The first three will be new landing pages. The last one will link to > the existing /porting page. > > Each of the platform pages will have basic system requirements and a > link to the download page. They pages can grow to contain (or link to) > other platform specific instructions or FAQ's. >
As an example, here is what the windows page might look like: http://www.openoffice.org/product/windows.html We could try to keep the other platforms in a parallel form. -Rob > > -Rob > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> I could see /platforms/mac if we imagine creating in the future >>>> similar landing pages for Windows or Linux. >>>> Note that today, a query of "OpenOffice for Linux" has this ancient >>>> page as a #1 hit: >>>> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/setup-linux.html >>>> And the #1 hit for "OpenOffice for Windows" is not even at our >>>> website. It goes to CNet's download.com page. >>> >>> >>> Very interesting. Indeed this could also be the way to catch users who look >>> for "OpenOffice Portable", for example, and should know that we do have a >>> (third-party, from winPenPack) version available; they are now offered an >>> ancient version since OpenOffice Portable has not been updated yet. The >>> updated version is not on the first page of search results. >>> >> >> Exactly. >> >> In the last month we've seen the following related queries: >> >> openoffice portable 2,500 >> open office portable 1,000 >> openoffice portable italiano 150 >> apache openoffice portable 16 >> portable 90 >> openoffice portable download 16 >> portable openoffice 12 >> openofficeportable <10 >> office portable <10 >> openoffice portable日本語版 <10 >> openoffice portable 3.4 <10 >> openoffice 3.4 portable <10 >> openoffice portable deutsch <10 >> openoffice.org portable 日本語版 <10 >> portable open office <10 >> openoffice.org portable <10 >> openoffice portable 日本語 <10 >> >> For many of these queries the #1 page is the German page: >> http://www.openoffice.org/de/downloads/oooportable.html. That is not >> the optimal page for most of these queries. >> >> -Rob >> >> >> >> >>> Regards, >>> Andrea.
