Hi Matthew,

>Wow... That IE bug was a bit obscure !
>
>Anyway, it should now be fixed. Anyone who is interested:
>URL:
http://website.openoffice.org/nonav/tryouts/Matthew/OOoWeb2/index.htm
>
>Thanks for that bug submission.
>
>Kind Regards,


Thanks.

Okay, some quick critiques and points:

* The design structure is nice.  That said, I must say I prefer the
earlier one, mark 5 because it was simpler.  But I really like the nice
spacing on the left navbar.  

But I am wondering about the left navbar.  It is requisite on
SourceCast--but not technologically necessary. It can be removed, as a
one-off for OOo.  The reason to remove it and have a double tab bar: To
locate all key information in one area. Right now, visitors going to the
site will see the left navbar, good, but may miss the top navbar.  We
could enlarge the fonts, or area for the top navbar--it still seems a
little crammed to me on XP (firefox) and OS X (safari), anyway--or
locate the key information in a double top navbar, with one,  the top,
being tabbed, the bottom not.


*.  I am moving the Coming Events to MP. It won't be on the homepage any
more.  There are too many now, as it is, and the page cannot support all
of them.

*. Media Attention, which should be renamed, "news" should just be a
link.  It will take people to the newsletter and list of news stories
that Deepkankar and others compile.  

So, that removes two big and to my mind fairly distracting boxes, Coming
Events and Media Attention, replacing them with two links that can fit
on the left navbar.

*. We do need a short blurb about what OOo the product and project is.
This can be one sentence or two, eg, "OpenOffice.org is the leading free
office suite compatible with other suites; and it is also an open
community project."


*. The footer is still too large on XP and Safari. It needs to be
smaller.  


--
Let's say we do have a double top navbar. Top could be tabbed, for
really important things; bottom for nearly as important links, those
currently on left navbar.

This gives us room, under the central graphic for announcements, top
news, whatever, all without distracting the visitor from learning about
OOo and how to download it.  My model is the apple website of course,
but also others'.  

Cheers
Louis


* The icon for NLC projects is good, as is the minimal language, but
let's eliminate the "English": it is confusing there.  Or does it change
per language?  I would, as suggested, replace it with no language at all
and just have, in the button, "Your Language."

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