Hi Andrew, >On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:08:20 -0800, Louis Suarez-Potts ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Therefore, any site design must accommodate the key desiderata as >> well as those things we imagine typical users wanting. To make this >> efficient, we need to focus viewer's attention, reduce or eliminate >> redundancies, and design the site so that the key things most >> viewers want are most obvious. > >I still thk there are far too many links on the front page at the >moment. It's an improvement over what presently exists; but there are >three lines of menus, top left and right, farming the important stuff. >I think that's two too many, but would be prepared to settle for the >slaughter of one of them.
I agree that we could prune. Mainly, what I am interested in is that those that we *do* want there are clearly there to satisfy our and whatever visitor's needs. The problem of finding things in a site is often the problem of sifting through information you do not know you need or not. So, as I've articulated before, I'm *for* pruning a lot and making it easier for visitors to see how to download, find useful information, and to learn about us straight off. But some redudancy seems inevitable--or does it? If we had no redudancy, we could eliminate the Documentation link and anything else already present on the Support page; that in fact is what I woudl prefer. We could lump, as CPH suggested, News items under a more general link, and these could also include the newsletter, etc. The economy of information here is so that visitors who are users or would-be users or OOo can find things lilke downloads, support, quickly; and that other users can find things like About OOo quickly; and so on. Cheers Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
