On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:13:24 +0100, J David Eisenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
> We could make a prominent Section "About the Product" vs. "About the
> Community" vs. "About the Website".
This sounds like a great idea! Right now the "About.." page,
while useful, isn't very friendly. Too much to read through, and
you're right, if I WERE a new user, I wouldn't find this page
helpful.
Volunteers??? :)
Feel free to use the layout idea at http://oooweb.evc-cit.info/ for the
"About the product" page.
I think that the about product should enhace the features of the site more
than the sections of a product then again there is no harm on looking how
other office suites promote their products in particular I found that the
thinkoffice site does a great job promoting the suite.
The apple approach for example (http://www.apple.com/iwork/) highlight key
features of their product (can we do someting with PDF export). Also they
do provide consise information of their offer and also a Demo and Video.
ThinkFreeOffice is also a clean and simple approach to displaying their
product, they also keep it in multiple pages on a (tour-like) way. They
make it easy to read and keep descriptions on 4-6 lines. There is
left-menu and very discreat header, they do push their iconset and also
make them look very stylish (aqua-like with a gray font).
Even Microsoft that has heavy legacy content and all should be on the
front page uses the technique usually used with CMS like E-Week, Sys-Con,
or many PC Magazine. They basically fill with content making it more
spread on the inside and putting background colors on the side. This makes
the user focus on the middle of the screen where they sey the 'key header'.
I think this is a good way to provide a consensus of what we want/need.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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