On 30 January 2010 12:54, Vincent Snijders <[email protected]> wrote: > > The main page contains links to Downloads and Mailing list information on > prominent places. AFAIK the Lazarus team doesn't have web designer, and that > shows.
A product website firstly gives a bit of summary information. This includes things like: * What is Lazarus? * What is LCL? * What is the latest version? * Where can I documentation (IDE & LCL)? * Where can I get installation/setup instructions? * Where can I download it from? Currently the Lazarus website looks like a forum website. Everybody but the core Lazarus developers say that. Why? * At the top left we have a login section * At the top right (same level as the word Lazarus) we have title "simple machine forums" * On the right we have recent forum posts. * On the right bottom we have forum statistics. * The search box searches...wait for it.... The FORUMS. * In the middle we have "recent news". NOWHERE does it say WHAT Lazarus is? Nowhere does it say the latest version, or when it was released. Nowhere does it say what platforms it supports or what widgetsets it supports. It is simply not a product website! I'm not a web designer either, but at least I can spot the difference. The Lazarus Wiki is more a product website, so make the wiki the default page for www.lazarus.freepascal.org and on the wiki right column add a link to the Forum website. I'm not trying to be rude or anything, I am simple pointing out the obvious faults of the current "first port of call" website new users get when they want to know about the Lazarus project. Why make it so difficult for new users? -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
