On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:02:16 +1030 Samuel Nicholas <nicholas.sam...@gmail.com> said:
> I want to help but can only provide opinion :\ > Just going through the website pages from left to right things that I notice > > 1. The sub menu items at the top left under the main menu (small grey > text links) really don't catch the eye at all. > Their fine for further technical information, but wouldn't put any > marketing information behind them as they are likely to be missed. been saying this for a long time. i'm killing them off beyond having anecdotal extra info in them for those that dig deep - no interesting/normal "marketing" info will be there. thus why e16 now is just that sub-link. it's not a "marketing focus". EVERYTHING has to be in the top level tabs/pages. no sub pages. people just dont bother going there. > 2. The download section doesn't have the windows binaries under the > unofficial packages section. > infact that section could just link directly to > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/E17BinaryPackages download needs doing. so far i've done main page and am in the middle of fixing up the about page. will work my way along. windows binaries though are on the lower end of priorities. > 3. Why does the support page even exist, it seems like duplicate > information and even links to the old wiki. > A clearer way to present the topic of support would be to split the > page (horizontally into columns following the style of the main page) > and have "user support" which could let you subscribe to the user > mailing list, link to relevant trac wiki pages, and forum, > exchange.enlightenment.org, etc. and then "developer support" with > similar mailing list links, developer doc links, and even show > companies who provide consulting services. yes. needs cleaning up. > 4. Contributing also needs some love, > links to pages that do it better(imho): > http://www.blender.org/development/ http://www.gimp.org/develop/ > http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora (although the links on that page > are broken) > The theme i see on these pages is the idea of breaking the > "contributing" task into skill tasks that people may have, then > providing them with short destription of the task before linking them > to tutorials on how to begin. > Now I don't really expect the e community to have so much time to > write up those tutorial pages, but short description and a few > specific links is doable. sure. as above. getting there. > 5. I like the contact page, those grey links up the top right corner > could be brought down into the body of the document with a picture of > the world or something. its just a bit of fun really anyway and bright > pictures please people. yes. flattening things. also need to improve the developer list to keep active devs listed and those that havent committed anything for > N days (eg 100) they get relegated to some inactive page list (off the contact list). primary pge space is valuable and no point spending it on people not doing things currently. :) > 6. The craziest issue I believe is the spread of the documentation, > * the old wiki - which has too many links going to it it needs killing off. just want to remove links to it in the end. > * the newer trac wiki - which is hidden underneath the tracker heading yes - will solve this in docs. trac wiki is going to be the place where all meaty/extended documentation is. e.org main is just the brochure pages. > * the docs page yes. again - the auto generated doxygen docs are good now. just need to clean it up and remove obsolete docs. > some thoughts on possible solutions > * have the trac wiki as the page that "docs" goes to and make the main > trac wiki page as appealing as the current docs page, need to account for auto-generated docs. trac cant handle it. > * show clear separation of user documentation, to developer > documentation eg http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page right now developer docs are priority. user docs are low priority. > * the tracker menu should link straight to the tickets section or > something relevant to the tracking capabilities of trac itself not going to restructure there. just going to clean up content and inside-page links. > 7. just noticed that you have two news pages, one in the trac and one > on the main title that are different..... could be amalgamated. that needs to go. trac news isnt used. > overall there is a lot of duplicate pages showing different > information, like two websites have been mashed together. thats actually what has happened over time. not even 2 - 3 or more. > thanks for asking > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Return on Information: > Google Enterprise Search pays you back > Get the facts. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
