Hello,
looking at https://www.sc40.sfo.collab.net/ , I have some considerations to offer...
1. There is no "What is Open Office?" 'section'. I would prefer a little
screaming section like that over the news. This is very important, because if
1000 persons visit the homepage, I think 10% out of them don't know
what OOo, actually, is.
The content has not yet been poured into the new layout and design. The whole top section (row) is given over to saying "What is OpenOffice.org?". Although at the moment, I'm not sure whether we are only going to include OpenOffice.org the product, i.e. not include OpenOffice.org the project or community.
2. The main menu is very "cheap". We should try to improve it.
Not sure what you are referring to as the "main menu". The main navigation is the tabs across the top. The three buttons down the right side are place holders for buttons (BIG) that are yet to be decided on and will link to three other pages. A request was made for this in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44089 and conversations are occurring within this issue and on the [email protected] list.
3. If we present a "login/password" form, we should provide (near it) a "Register/Why register" link too.
My understanding was that we were not having a login/password form on the home page, and that this would be replaced by the Search box.
4. The three orange buttons are quite "ugly" (not in context). The label, too,
are very poor ("New?" to what?)
These are just place holders. Maarten has made the request for buttons to be prepared. When I originally suggested the buttons (http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/homepages/prototype_j1.png), I was thinking of the size and position as the three buttons on the left side of www.netbeans.org, see: http://www.netbeans.org/
From the above rough copy, the original download labels are "Download", "Native Language Confederation" and "New to OpenOffice.org". Here is what "New to OpenOffice.org" links to:
From: http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=6521
"- New to OpenOffice.org - click to display landing page for new visitors to the OpenOffice.org web site, project, community, or new to
OpenOffice.org the product."
[...]
"New page - "New to OpenOffice.org"
- Welcome to OpenOffice.org, describe both product and community.
- Describe tabs across the top; Home, Download, Support, Development,
Projects, and how to get around once leave this and home page. Let
people know what is behind the tabs so they will have more confidence
about clicking on them. Also, the fact that they can access these tabs
from anywhere on the site.
Welcome page to include guidance/map with couple sentence description for with links to relevant page: - About Us - Licenses - I feel this needs to be re-written for people that wish to just use OpenOffice.org. At present, probably include in Contribute section. - Contribute - include To Do list - Donate - Mailing Lists - FAQ"
I must admit that I don't know if these points were already addressed or
you do not consider, by now, the content and the presentation of those items...
In that case, please forget this email.
Putting up design elements that are not quite finished and making a request for same is a way to invoke responses :) Otherwise, if you publish what you consider a final proof it is more difficult to incorporate and include feedback from others.
The conversations have moved on since then and are on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, see the bottom of: http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList
Regards Jacqueline
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