On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:32 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > On 30 July 2013 21:06, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > >> Am 07/30/2013 04:02 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Mattias BIK Service<matt...@bikab.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> For christ sake. Every time i trying to download openoffice there is >>>> almost >>>> impossible to find the right download page. >>>> >>>> Im from Sweden and and if the current version is not supported by >>>> Swedish, >>>> put a link to an older version then. How hard can it be? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Tired of searching for download links now. >>>> >>>> No reply of this mail is needed. I just have to blow of some steem after >>>> bringing some time on ur website. >>>> >>>> >>> One easy way we can improve here. How about modifying this page: >>> >>> http://www.openoffice.org/**download/<http://www.openoffice.org/download/> >>> >>> And where it currently has the line that says: >>> >>> "Signatures and Hashes: KEYS , ASC , MD5 , SHA256 | Release Notes | >>> Legacy Version" >>> >>> Change that to: >>> >>> "Signatures and Hashes: KEYS , ASC , MD5 , SHA256 | Release Notes | >>> Older AOO Versions | Legacy OpenOffice.org" >>> >>> And then make "Older AOO Versions" link to the old 3.4.1-era >>> download/other.html file, which we could resurrect from SVN. >>> >>> Would that work? >>> >> >> Sure, in general yes. Should be a cheap solution. >> >> But I doubt that it is good for the user experience to put more and more >> into this small green box - BTW: It's called sub-green ;-) >> >> I would like to add a link to the documentation (Setup Guilde, User >> Manual, etc.), too, when it's ready to link to. >> >> Slowly but surely I think a redesign is necessary. Am I alone with this >> gut feeling? >> > no you are not. That page would benefit from a general redesign, instead of > pressing all kinds of changes into the current structure. >
A couple tools/techniques to keep in mind that could help with a page redesign: 1) If we can stabilize the page for a week or two the numbers from Google Analytics will tell us what the most common options from that page are. For example, what % of users click other, what % go for release notes, etc. This might help us bring together the most-used information in a less cluttered way. 2) We have the ability, via Google Experiments, to try alternative designs and have them be randomly shown to different users, to see which one performs best. We did that with different variations on the social sharing icons/links a while back, you may recall. All this requires is that we have some measurable metric to rate the designs by. For example, maybe we want to minimize the number of seconds the user stays on that page? (A long delay might mean it takes too long to find what they want). Or maximize the percentage of visitors who ultimately download AOO? Regards, -Rob > rgds > jan I. > > >> >> Unfortuntely the legacy directory structure, with its "stable" and >>> "localized" directories is too weird to point users to directly. >>> >> >> Absolutely. >> >> Marcus >> >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
