On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:35:38 +0100, ":murb: [maarten brouwers]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > > I hope the discussion can continue in this manner... I will only adress > the issues not addressed by Miika who I agree with. The login box will > indeed be replaced by a search, maybe even accompanied with a little > icon... but Christian hasn't made it work yet... > > >Those three boxes are the entire extent of the information available on the > >page > >on an initial screen. That, and links to the components. But there is no > >link to > >tech support, contact, mailing lists, documentation, latest news (unless > >that's > >what that green box is supposed to be). > > > > > There is this usability 'rule' that one should minimize the ways of > getting somewhere. Make these ways logical and a user will more quickly > understand the structure of the site, therefore find information better. > This is why the design focusses more on access via the horizontal > navigation bar. Can't point you to literature without searching for > myself (where timing test have occurred), but I've read it more than > once and believe this is not more than logical. >
No comments other than that's true. The front page should be as 'front page' as possible, a quick entrace to the website. We're not building a web portal here. > >Users may or may not realize that there is stuff below the screen. It is > >certainly not evident when I first load the page. > > > > > The 'philosophy' behind this is the fact that the lower part is simply > less important for the average user. Furthermore I think the suggestion > made by Jacqueline; namely removing the News box and placing the In the > media box to the right of the article excerpts would help a lot. I just > designed around the requested content, so if this is allowed to be > removed, I will. > And as I have said many times on this and the SC40 list: The bottom of the homepage doesn't look good at all. There's no reason to occupy all that space with some news articles at the center. As much as I don't really support the design proposal I made early this month (http://www.safelyinrussia.com/tmp/miikka/ooowebsite/1.1/) I would still like to see something like that at the bottom. A few columns of information, then the footer. No need to scroll too much. > >If you do scroll down, you find a tiny bit of information. Not much though. > >There > >is nothing that would tell the user how to get help, or where to get a > >manual > >(which is often requested on the users lis), or how to even report a bug! > > > > > Wouldn't you click on support or new user if you were looking for help > or a manual? Bug reports should not be made by newbies, so best way to > report them is via some other person who is giving support... this is > the new user situation. Experienced users should login first by clicking > on 'My Pages' and they can report a bug from there. > I would click on 'About', bypass all the loads of text I encounter and look for some help links there. Regards, Miikka Leskinen miles_fin > >The best I can say about this design is that the picture in the centre is > >pretty. > >But that doesn't justify the removal if imortant information, or introducing > >ambiguity, or discriminating against users with low-contrast vision. > > > > > I would really like to know if you can follow my way of reasoning about > the menu bar... and in what extend you agree to this... > > >>Has any of these problems been fixed in Maarten's recent proposal > >>(http://www2.hku.nl/~maarten/external/OpenOffice.org/proposal3.0/)? > >> > >> > >One of them. He replaced "new" by "new user". > > > > > ;-) > > g., > > > Maarten > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
