On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > Hi, > > Get rid of the icons, they don't add anything. An office suite is an > office suite. We can use the icons when we want to discuss the different > programs OOo is composed of, but it is not necessary to have icons for > the sake being there on the main page. Rather have them on something > like a 'product tour' (something imho the mainpage doesn't have to be > (though it could link to such a thing directly) > > > Remember, not everyone coming to the main page is coming in to > > join the community -- I'd be willing to bet that most people are coming to > > find out "what is OpenOffice.org, what does it consist of, and what can it > > do for *me*?" > You don't solve the problem by showing the abstract icons imho. > > >> You have also removed news section, which is important for me. > > > > The news is important, in that it lets people know that OOo is actively > > being talked about/used. > > You have news and a changing home page. Imho news does not have to take > much of the main page's space. Bit of changing content is good, but the > main task is to have a stable entry to the website. What do you think > about instead just a news ticker? > News ticker is a great idea.
Of course, a really good idea would be some actual user/usability testing! Figure out what tasks we want people to be able to do, and what we want them to get from the page, and then <gasp /> see if they can do it! This doesn't have to be expensive or lengthy; see http://nedbatchelder.com/text/usability.html and http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html -- J. David Eisenberg http://catcode.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
