Norman Vine writes: > FWIW IMHO pictures do not belong on the main page at all !!!
I'm not a graphics fan myself. I hate Flash pages (with an intensity that would scare many of you), I hate big logos, I hate complex layout, etc. etc. I like to make my own Web pages work well not only under lynx but on my cell phone text display. On the other hand, when I go looking at other open-source projects' home pages, what I almost always want to find is 1. a screenshot 2. a feature list 3. download information Later I might come back looking for a FAQ, mailing lists, CVS and developer information, roadmaps, tutorials, etc., but I don't care about those on the first visit My target user is an appropriately skeptical person who has installed and used a commercial user-level sim (probably MSFS) at least once before, has heard of FlightGear, and has decided to go to the home page to find out if this is just another piece-of-crap half-finished over-hyped project or not. The user has done this dozens of times before, and was almost always disappointed -- the spreadsheet wasn't as good as Excel, the mail reader was missing almost all required features, etc. -- and she does not plan to let herself get burned again by wasting too much time. Sticking a screenshot thumbnail at the top of the home page gives us a chance to grab her attention instantly, before she wanders off to do something else, and does a good job at showing the current state of FlightGear. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
