On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 19:43 +1200, Ivan M wrote: > Hello all, Hey Ivan,
> > It has been some 3 months since we launched the new website design. > The response has been overwhelmingly positive, and the new design has > officially brought some positive changes, with the rate of downloads > from the homepage doubling from 10% to 20% [1]. Excellent to see that our efforts had a positive result. The goal was to increase downloads and that has been achieved, excellent result. If there is a marketing campaign similar to what was done earlier in the year but with the links aimed at the front page rather that the download page I think we would see a similar if not greater increase in the downloads. Louis may know if there is a likliehood of this being repeated some time in the near future. > > With OOo 3's upcoming release, it might be a good time to re-evaluate > the design and see if we can improve anything - a number of > suggestions have been collected from the webmaster list [2]. Many of > the ideas there have not been addressed, and there are some > interesting and potentially useful suggestions there. > > The most notable website project that needs to get done for OOo 3 > (IMO) is the new why.openoffice.org design [3]. The most important > task there is fixing up the CSS, which has been broken somewhat by the > new design's CSS. I now have time for this task, and am prepared to > work on it in the coming weeks. André, you haven't completely > disappeared, have you? :) Andre's connection to the internet is not always reliable. He has often asked for help getting the CSS sorted so I wuold say go for it. It's definitely a great looking page and having it go live with the 3.0 launch would be brilliant > The graphics there may also need updating (screenshots - to reflect > the Galaxy interface, and possibly branding once the art project > decides on a splash screen design for OOo 3). > > As for the homepage, here are some possible changes, in response to > [2]. You can get an idea of what some of these might look like with a > mockup I have made [4]. > > - Replacing the current icons on the homepage with similar or > equivalent Galaxy icons > - Evaluating accessibility concerns, including the tabs interface > (Search, Change Language, New User) > - Minor design tweaks that help usability (e.g. having key words in > each action statement as italics, making the currently selected tab > more clear, etc) I like the idea of the emphasis and the Galaxy icons if only for continuity. > > Please let me know what you think. > > Regards, > Ivan. > > [1] http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/one_click_download_on_openoffice > [2] http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=9778 > [3] http://marketing.openoffice.org/tryouts/Why.OpenOffice.org/en/index.html > [4] > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/6/6e/Website-refresh-mockup.png > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- "The Best Things in life are 3" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
