Hi Janice, Thanks for your eagle eyes! My comments inline below.
Janice Gelb wrote: > Michelle olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> wrote: > >> As part of my work on the opensolaris website project, we've drafted a >> splash page and 4 landing pages to go live in May. This is a stop-gap >> measure for short-term, and I could use your help to improve the >> content. (Long-term, we'll do a full site audit and usability study for >> new navigation). Any and all feedback is encouraged and appreciated! >> >> > > * As a person coming to this page for the first > time, I was a bit confused by some of the links > under "Project: Website" -- without knowing anything > about open source projects, seeing things called > "Help: SSH Keys" and "Poll(2) OGB Election" was a > little disconcerting. Maybe you could use more > general language, like "Voice Your Opinion" or > "Latest Poll" or something similar, and then have > the links for the help in participating in the polls > on the poll page? > Right, we have the goal of making these landing pages stand-alone, but not sure if we'll actually have time to do it. In other words, the landing pages with all the content should not have the left navigation bar or the top navigation icons, they should look just like the left-pane of the screenshot. I'm not describing it well...but, if we manage to get this done, folks won't see the items you cite above. > * Seems a bit odd to have the link to the Download > Center with instructions for downloading the source > file consolidations appear after the links that enable > you to download specific areas of interest. > I don't understand this comment, can you re-state or check to see if I covered this in my most recent set of changes. > * I recommend changing the wording from "Find Help > With OpenSolaris" to "Find Help for OpenSolaris" > Also, on that page, "Participant Help" isn't as > descriptive as it might be. How about something > like "General Help"? > done. Per other comments, we're actually limiting this to just 'Learn More' 'Find Help' 'Participate' and 'Get the Source', > * On the Participate page, maybe break out the > Code, Documentation, and Testing projects into > separate links, and have these projects on > separate pages? > Agreed, but I won't have time for this fix until next month. > If you'd like, once the text for the pages is finalized, > I can try to do a consistency edit at some point. > Thanks again! Michelle > Cheers, > Janice > > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org >
