Gavin McDonald wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Brown [mailto:[email protected]]
I have to agree with Marcus on this. It has to be simple.
Example, see this page:
http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi
Now , forget all the developer oriented content on that page and focus on
the
part that says:
Current official release (closest mirror site selected automatically)
Now, it has chosen the closest mirror already, the link to the file is
there, they click on it
and download it - what is the difficulty here, please explain?
I see how this would be usable for users. Very good.
Perhaps the download link needs to be a big shiny blue/green graphic Icon
with the words 'Download now!'
on it to make more user intuitive, no problem there, you can do that.
A button would help but not required, something that is a little more
obvious than a link as it is easily missed.
On the page is an 'Other' mirrors section where one can optionally choose
another mirror if
the chosen one is having issues for some reason (it should not, as all
mirrors are checked hourly
for their usefulness and removed from being a automatically chosen mirror
if there are issues.)
(this too is optional)
So, effectively, you can remove everything and replace it with a pretty
Download Icon, can't get
any simpler than that. In other words, it can work in exactly the same way
the current OpenOffice.org
program downloads now.
Oh, actually just checked, the nice and easy 'Download now!' button on
openoffice.org redirects to
http://planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/ (for me)
oops, now what is a user to do? My program didn't download, where is it,
what's the filename I'm looking for,
what does stable mean, hmm, ooh theres the word developer, perhaps Im in the
wrong place, HELP!
That is a problem that has showed up lately and has had that very
reaction.
