Hi all,
I've made a compilation of the messages that came several times on the
websmasters list and with feedback I hope you'll find useful. I thought
you will be interested in it. I should have said first that the most
important feedback is a great thanks and kudos for your work, so the
last message illustrate all
of them :) Thanks a lot for your work guys !
Kind regards
Sophie
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Just want the community needed... a more modern feel - less nerdy too.
But we do appreciate the nerds!!!
I believe it will lead to greater adoption and better PR.
I like the overall layout and really appreciate the giant effort this
must have been.
The colors though, are all faint - they look weak - like a light beer.
That does not reflect the full-body, robustness of the feature set of
OOo. Nor does it convey the colorful richness of all of the languages
and platforms that OOo supports.
More gusto and saturation are needed to match all of the application's
wondrous capabilities.
Thanks for all you do!
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overall it looks really great, but there are some issues (using Epiphany
2.22).
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First of all, great design! I think it will boost the usability of the
site, and helping catch more users.
I just have a small suggestion:
I think it is a good idea to put more focus in some subtitles.
Example:
In the first Title "I want to learn more about OpenOffice.org". It
should be put in bold the sentence "why should I use it".
This will reinforce this particular aspect, to those who visit the site,
and most probably their first question will be "why should I use it"?
So if this sentence is in bold, they will know quicker were to find
answer to their question.
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I just submitted the story to digg.com about the new design. Spread the
word!
http://digg.com/design/New_Site_Design_Launched_for_Open_Office
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The new design looks very fresh, clean, pure and not too busy. One
suggestion I have is the search box. It looks out of place. You should make
it a bit more round and less simple looking. And why is it faded? It is very
bad to do that because it will make it less accessible. I hope you
appreciate my opinions.
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I've just taken a quick glance so far and I think the new design looks
awesome. I haven't yet tried it out with a screen reader for
accessibility, but there is one problem jumping out at me for users with
low vision: In the upper right corner, the contrast between the
background and the text/foreground is practically non-existent. It's
hard enough for me to see what I'm typing in that entry, and I'm not
visually impaired. Any chance for some increased contrast there?
Again, overall it really is a vast improvement.
Thanks for your time, the redesign, and soliciting feedback!
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The only problem I ran into was a loss of continuity when I went to the
extensions site. Suddenly the whole interface changed and there were no
conspicuous links back to the main site.
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News page:
White space on the right
Heading right on top
Support page:
No white space on the left
Heading is much lower then on News page
hard to read on widescreen monitors (text is not width limited)
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One small request. Can we have the two birds on the top left of the new
pages. I think it will keep the continuity of the logo
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But when I click
through to download for other platforms the links list is spanning off
the screen to the right, so that needs fixing. Also it would be nice if
the graphic style and theme of the home page was used on all the pages,
I found the difference in the style between the home page and the linked
pages too great. It looks like the linked pages are a different web
site, (i.e. pages don't span the browser window, have completely
different graphics, a different informational layout etc...) The home
page style is lovely, it should be the house style for the entire site.
That's probably a look of work, I know.
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1. The extend tab goes to the old page with no tabs.
2. Please put the current version number on the home page!
Otherwise first blush looks pretty nice.
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I didn't notice the search/language/Login box until I moved my mouse
cursor to the top right corner of y screen to close Firefox. You may
want to may it a little more conspicuous, as the first time I saw the
site, I wondered where search went.
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Love the new site design, but there's one problem: it doesn't seem to
set the
background colour, and assumes it's white - mine's a pale orange and it's
noticeably wrong. I'm using konqueror 3.5.9 - I'm guessing it's a
simple CSS
fix.
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The news panel on the right was really good PR for your site. You might
want to consider putting it back...
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Just a query about the banner: "The free and open productivity suite" -
would someone who does not know about open source software necessarily
understand what is meant?
Many, many thanks to all who work so hard on OpenOffice. It is a credit
to your dedication and professionalism that it is such an attractive and
powerful set of applications.
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Looks very nice and clean. One thing however. I visit www.openoffice.org
often, and then I see in one view the most important stuff. What I now
miss is the news. What is the current version? The home page is a little
too clean.
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Another suggestion is to put in the first page a drop-down button to
access to different language version of the site. This will allow people
which don't speak english, to access to OpenOffice site in their language.
That's all.
Hope my ideas were well explained. Sorry for the possible bad english.
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I would like to propose a small change to the http://www.openoffice.org
homepage to enhance usability:
The list of 'I want to ... xxx ... Openoffice.org' sentences is a bit
uncomfortable to use: we have to read the full sentence to find the
actual information content in the middle, surrounded by the uniform
prologue and epilogue.
As far as I know our brain works better with clearly and quickly
identifiable visual tokens. Full sentence reading is slow, especially
when the letters are big and the sentence spans across half of the screen.
Would not it be easier to find the link one needs if the part of the
sentence with the function of the link would be emphasized somehow
(slightly bold / different color / different font size / etc.)?
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There is not "body background color" in the css file, so when visitors
(like me) have a default navigator background color witch is not white,
it is not nice :-)
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1. On the home page - if one quickly scans the large buttons/links,
one sees "I want to", "I want to", "I want to", "I want to", ... It
makes
figuring out which links do what unnecessarily long. It seems not to
matter,
but its noticable, you catch yourself reading down the list,
noticing that
the starting words didn't tell you anything, and rereading.
2. In the download tab, hovering over the second half of each "button"
makes that second half change color. It shouldn't - its
non-clickable. Its
confusing; I caught myself trying to click it and it not working.
3. The tab bar would look much better if the darker blue area on top
did not directly coincide with the top of each tab.
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Hats off guys , great web design for great software , please don't stop the
music ;)
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