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. > > > [snip] > > > 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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
