Sounds good to me. I also agree that some important work needs to be done on the site. Everyone is already talking about factual errors/out of date stuff. But I think the actual appearance and usability sucks.
Everything is very bland looking. Obviously, this is accounting software, not a band's website. But white background with pale blue and black letters doesn't build any excitement either. There are many gentle background colors that are more soothing without creating any visibility problems (which are important issues since many small to medium size businesses may actually employ older accountants with reduced vision). Also, some additional text colors would be helpful to pull elements out of a long page. For example, the downloads page has some of the following: Debian Ubuntu RPM FreeBSD OpenBSD Virtual Box etc These items are not quickly pulled out by the eye since they are only set apart by Bold. A larger font and a different color text for that word only would let someone quickly find their item of interest. ------------------------------------------------------------ This is also present in the first page section: Download Installing LedgerSMB Fedora Installation Windows Installation Tutorial News LedgerSMB 1.3.18 released LedgerSMB has been accepted into Debian! LedgerSMB 1.3.17 released LedgerSMB 1.3.16 has been released. LedgerSMB 1.3.15 has been released. User menu Create account Log In ----------------------------------------- I think that the Tutorials are great to highlight, but belong as a subsection under each OS's section on the page instead. The News part is worthless on this page, this is a download page The User Menu should be part of the page header properly and is needed on every page anyway Just with this page as an example: Pleasant background color (light). Drop left section block completely Merge user menu contents into header and footer Move partial download page stuff in block into actual page contents Larger fonts, better sectioning with useful color cues Stick any needed "junk" into bottom of page I also understand why using SourceForge for Official Releases and such is necessary, but I find using it for any Beta or Development only releases a pain in the butt. I would prefer to have a snappier place to quickly get those files, such as wget http://hither.thither.yon/devdown/ledgersmb.2.6.01rc.tar.gz Heck, to keep out bots, you could say that: the development only download spot is: http://hither.thither.yon/devdown/ (no indexing allowed) and the latest rc is ledgersmb.2.6.01rc.tar.gz Anyway, just my thoughts.. Chris Bennett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
