I think the site is "pretty" but it lacks badly in all the objectives that the site is supposed to meet:
1) Download box is very deeply hidden, so everyone is going to click on the stupid Download tab which is not what we want. Furthermore, it makes the download lessp rominent. 2) There is no way to access top-priority items like web forums, mailing lists and documentation. 3) The explanatory paragraph is long. People don't tend to read much when they visit a page. 4) There are few links to futher information, and they are not prominent at all. 5) There is no space given to a press kit, or media relations. 6) There is no space used to try to gather more volunteers. We depend on volunteers, and need to encourage people to come and help out. 7) There is no way for people to contact anyone. Not the community, not the developers. They can't report a bug. Each of those points could be expanded extensively. The gist of the problem is, this page gives up usability and usefullness for visual design. I don't deny that the page is beautiful. But it's going to infuriate people trying to accomplish something. Just my $0.02 Daniel. On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:42:19PM +0100, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > Hi, > > I've worked again on my proposal and would like to share with you the > current status. Now you /may/ comment ;) You can find it here: > > http://www.murb.nl/extern/openoffice.org/websiteproposal/2.0/ > > It's much more Applish, or Mozillish than the currently running designs > I think. I believe this type of site will attrack less geeky types of > people sooner. In the HTML-comments you might follow my reasoning behind > the removed links > > It's not finished. The content of the upcoming events, news etc. will be > designed much like matthews version 5. > > I've tested it on IE 6, Firefox 1.0 and Opera 7 (all WinXP) and > validated both CSS and XHTML Strict. 'Old browsers' will probably just > display the plain content, but I would like to see soms screens of > mac/linux machines. > > Looking forward to hear your comments. > > g., > > > Maarten > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel Carrera | There is no urge so great as for one man to Join OOoAuthors today! | edit another man's work. http://www.oooauthors.org | -- Mark Twain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
