Hi Alexandro, *, On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:44:07AM +0100, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > 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. > > > >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.
I think I cannot follow. > 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. Yes: But it is http://www.apple.com/iwork/ - not on the main-page http://www.apple.com directly. (that was my point). > ThinkFreeOffice is also a clean and simple approach to displaying their > product, they also keep it in multiple pages on a (tour-like) way. > [...] Again I think we are talking about different things. The initial post was about putting the product information onto the main-frontpage because it is hard to find using the "New User"-Button. I replied that in my opinion this is the wrong approach. I think it is better to fix the "New User"-page to make it more useful than to "clobber" the main-page. The "New User" page really was intended as the main-entry point for new users to find out about both OOo as a community and about OOo as the office-suite. Apparently we didn't pay enough attention to it since David's points are perfectly reasonable. > 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. And again I cannot follow you. > 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. But I think you basically agree with me. Making the navigation clear: don't provide lots of links, clearly focus on one aspect instead - but make it easy for the user to switch to another area. The Idea behind the frontpage is that most users visit it because they heard about OOo and now want to download it. That's why the download-button is the centerpiece, the most catchy part of the frontpage. The rest of the site is for "surfers" that happen to come across www.openoffice.org - they want some more information. For these group, the "new-User"-button was added. Another big group are people looking for information in languages other than english - for those the native-language button was added. To not leave the casual visitor clueless about what he can download/learn more about, the short about-text was added. The rest is the mandatory "news" and "in the media" section. ciao Christian -- NP: Kid Rock - Welcome 2 The Party (Ode 2 The Old School) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
