-I am resending this e-mail of last Thursday. Besides thinking about the
first page, I want to restate that it is important to think about the
follow up pages, how do pages link together. A great homepage won't make
the entire site better. I would at least strife for improving both on
the first level (home page), and second level (e.g. download,
contribution, in short the most prominently linked and important pages).
The link I referred to at the start contains a suggested site structure,
which deviates (e.g. removal of contribution) from the current structure.-
Hi all,
I created an updated site structure proposal
http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/49988/sitestructure.odp
, based on an earlier proposal. Included now is also a very very rough
design. All explanation is included in the impress document.
It is really focussed on less, and may be more marketing than anything
else. It is targetted at the following persona's: Explorers, First Time
Downloaders, and Users. As will become clear from my sitestructure
proposal, calls for contribution should be placed all over the site where
applicable.
To make mailinglist discussion a little bit easier, a copy pase of the
second page of the design, clarifying some of the choices:
*Development portal* (maybe contribution portal), starting point for those
who are already contributing, but friendly enough for those who want to
contribute (are not contributing yet)
*News* no longer full news articles at the first page, but create a news
ticker (javascript). ticker should have two parts, source/context (e.g.
dev-blog, standardization...) and contain a link to go to a news overview
(separate page), also the way non-js browsers can access news. required:
publish all news through some blogging system that generates RSS feeds,
which should be the basis for both the ticker as the news overview page.
*Extensions* create a box on the main page with changing content, e.g. a
clipart set, a cool extension etc. this box always contains a link to the
extension page
*Get OpenOffice.org* (may be one click download, under discussion) also
offer CD's, P2P in separate page
*Support* as current page, but cleaner, remove all 1.x references for
example, and divide it in: FAQ, I want a solid reference, Custom help
Why/About more end-user oriented, basic information. there is much overlap
in the about and why page at the moment.
* remove Contribute but introduce 'How can I contribute?' boxes at well
chosen positions at the website, e.g. development, ask for programmers,
extensions, ask for extension builders, about, ask for marketing etc.
* remove New User since this is just a bad workaround around a bad website
* remove Native lang as a button, but add 'Worldwide (US)' dropdown at top
of website, which is generally already a sign that there are localized
editions as well. Through JS we could create a box appearing at the top of
the page (like Firefox's 'a pop up has been blocked') notifying users
about the availability of a page in their language
A rough design/layout proposal is included as well. btw Matthias, feel
free to include it in the requirements.odt as you prepared it (
http://ux.openoffice.org/reports/2007/website/sitestructure.odp )
g.,
Maarten
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