On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Christian Lohmaier wrote:

> 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.
> > >
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> 
> 
> 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.

You're right; the changes don't have to be on the main page, and I see 
your logic in leaving it as it is.  When the "new user" clicks the "new 
user" page, that's definitely where the "what this product does" 
information should go.

> 
> 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
> 

-- 
J. David Eisenberg  http://catcode.com/


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