On Saturday 09 February 2008 05:36:16 Frank Mau wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've prepared a new proposal for the replacement of
> http://download.openoffice.org/index.html with
> http://download.openoffice.org/draft.html
>
> As you can see two major things changed:
> - a fifth button in orange was added. This is a link to give users a
> chance to evaluate our newest RCs/Snapshot builds
>
> - after clicking on the green download button the contribute page will
> be shown and then the download starts.
>
> Beside this,
>
> - all blocks act like a button, was remarked by Maarten, done
> - the 'Get more platforms and languages' is a new light-green block, was
> remarked by Maarten, done
>
> Hope everything is fine for our customers and we can start the
> replacement on Monday.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank

Frank, This is just bloody excellent.  Very very good

Thank you

Cheers

GL


>
> Jörg Jahnke schrieb:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Stefan Taxhet schrieb:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Frank Mau wrote:
> >>> Hello again,
> >>> a first view on the proposal is available at
> >>> http://download.openoffice.org/draft.html
> >>>
> >>> As you can see it's more or less a copy of the 2.3.1 download-page
> >>> (http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.1/index.html?focus=download).
> >>
> >> And your draft.html is intended as a replacement for the
> >> download.ooo/2.3.1/index.html page?
> >
> > I just talked to Frank and he explained to me that the new page is
> > intended as a replacement for the Download Central
> > (download.ooo/index.html) page.
> >
> >> If it is intended as Download Central (download.ooo/index.html) we
> >> have to give it a bit more thought.
> >
> > I am at least not sure whether people were aware that the
> > download.ooo/index.html is Frank's target when they gave their comments
> > or whether they thought that the download.ooo/2.3.1/index.html page was
> > meant to be modified.
> >
> >> I'm not against replacing the <version>/index.html page and we should
> >> certainly measure the change in downloads when replaying it.
> >> I would like to use a piece of HTML/JS (plus .css and .js) for the
> >> home page and download central to implement 1-click download (exactly
> >> *one* :-) as soon as possible - as you mention below. If you give us
> >> such a piece of code I would be happy to use it now at Download Cenbral.
> >
> > I'll ask Frank to extract this part of the draft.html page. Perhaps he
> > can create a draft2.html which only replaces the download-button on the
> > current download.ooo/index.html page, for a better review.
> >
> >> The new workflow has no pass-through page with information about
> >> contributing or graphical advertisement for testing or donations.
> >> If we drop this in favor of less clicks we should at least have a
> >> follow-up page that is shown after the start of the 1-click download.
> >> See the download process of the DE project or for extensions for an
> >> examples of follow-up pages.
> >
> > That part is already implemented. In fact I think we could as well use
> > the draft.html directly as a replacement for the download.ooo/index.html
> > page now, as I think the design is more appealing than the current page.
> > The parts missing on the draft.html, which currently are on the
> > download.ooo/index.html page, are a link for "Derived Works", source
> > code for old versions, L10N in progress, OOo solutions, the section on
> > download managers and part of the second "Development" heading.
> >
> > How do others think about replacing the download.ooo/index.html with
> > Frank's draft.html? Is it better to first replace only the
> > download-button with a 1-Click-Download button and then think about
> > design changes, or would you prefer to have the download.ooo/index.html
> > replaced now with the draft.html (perhaps with some/all of the missing
> > links added to the sidebar)?
> >
> >> Greetings
> >> Stefan
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jörg
> >
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