Hi all,
On 2007-11-22, at 08:23 , Kay Koll wrote:
Hi Alexandro,
This design has the disadvantage that it looks completely different
to the original and to most of the local pages.
Kay, you refer to Filip's mockup? Alexandro was critiquing.... and I
think his points, about text, language, image, are good.
I am not sure that looking different on the homepage is a
disadvantage, actually.
We should avoid to use a single face on the main page, it can be
easily identified as politically incorrect.
I am missing prominent pointers to the OO.o projects , to the My
Pages and to the localized pages.
The point here is double: downloads and then information. Is there any
reason to refer to "projects"? or "My pages?" There is a reason to
refer to the idea of logging in, to be sure, but I disagree we want to
make the homepage like the working pages. Indeed, I'd argue we want to
do the opposite.
There is no pointer to the localized pages. We should also consider
to add a pointer to document templates because this is what the many
users are looking for and it has the advantage that more user
returning to the page.
Hm. No, I disagree. We do want to have a support pointer, and that's
exactly what Filip's page has. Kay, if we have too much information on
the homepage it gets too cluttered. The Support page (or portal.ooo)
can have that. But the homepage needs to be radically simple and
direct, not cluttered.
When we are using screenshots as on this page, we should display the
application window only and should use more than one platform, when
more than one screenshot is used. One of the biggest advantages is
the platform independence of OO.o.
I think generic independence is crucial, to be sure but I also don't
think having screenshots actually helps. I think it does not. I am
very much in favour of keeping it simple: our icon, period, maybe one
other image. Too many images *confuses* attention. We want each and
every image to serve a particular function and purpose and to limit
those as much as possible. Other pages that explain more in detail can
have those things.
Regards
Kay
Best
louis
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:50:09 -0600, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Thanks!
On 2007-11-21, at 11:31 , Molcan Filip wrote:
Hello all,
I've tried to create a new mockup for openoffice.org. What do you
think about this? As always, images can be changed, everything
can be changed :-)
URL: http://www.molcan.cz/download/ooo3.jpg
I am not a fan of the floating screenshots. I think they look
jagged and not very clean for a frontpage. Is there somehting more
recognizable that we can get in. Maybe just having the icons of OOo
which are SVG so the clarity will be excellent.
Also from a marketing perspective is not good to have a frown face
guy on the cover of the a product we want to sell people into.
Usually smiling people is more recomendable. Maybe a face of a guy
actually 'getting it' would be better.
Finally from an internationalization perspective, avoid having
english text on graphics. This is not good idea if we want to have
a similar page in other language. The text will become a big hassle
to localize since is a bitmap as opposed of an actual source.
It's quite good but the images themselves seem to compete for eye
attention. I'd suggest a stronger central image (for download),
disappear the hapless man with the briefcase.
What about tabs? Do others have views?
Maarten, Kay? Cloph? Matthias?
Have a nice day,
Filip Molčan
E-Mail: fipa at mac.com
WWW: http://www.molcan.cz
Jabber: filip at molcan.cz
Ciao
louis
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