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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Moderator New Zealand www.theingots.org.nz GET DRESSED : GET OOOGEAR Gear for the well dressed OOo Advocate www.ooogear.co.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
