+1 for a slideshow - that would be an attention grabber. But which format would you like to use for the slideshow? I have three ideas.
- SCREENSHOTS. Show off some of the things that are unique to openSUSE and by extension Linux. One image with a caption on each slide. - TALKING POINTS. Rotate between a few one-liners that highlight key advantages over other operating systems or distributions. Use neutral, abstract backgrounds. Here's an example I put together in five minutes using existing material: http://i.imgur.com/ob0tz.png You can link these talking points to other pages for more information. - BOTH. Explain talking points briefly and balance out the text with an image or a screenshot. Ubuntu's website at http://www.ubuntu.com/ features a good example. This approach requires more space than is available in the website design draft however, otherwise the slideshow would look packed and wouldn't be inviting to take a look at. I like the design, but I noticed that the column alignment isn't entirely consistent. I highlighted the table grid in blue here: http://i.imgur.com/qGMu6.png Cheers, Pieter 2011/2/24 Thomas Schmidt <[email protected]> > > On 24.02.2011 08:55, Manu Gupta wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I know it is abrupt but I need some help > > Have a look at this http://suseware.com/trial/extended.php > > > > I will like all of us to apply our minds to get a set of images that can > > work as a slide show instead of the 11.2 box.. > > > > Also, please check the links below.. see if something is missing > > > > I know I have to add twitter, identica and facebook > > Hi Manu! > I agree we should replace the box with a slideshow. > Some more things we need to work on until we can put this into production: > - I18n: Probably we should use PHP Gettext for this. We need the language > dependant content > in .pot files, so we can make use of our translation community to have the > landing page in > many languages > - Automatic redirect to the users language > - The bento javascript files should get sourced from static.o.o so we don't > have to update all > sites when something changes in the menu. > - The 'openSUSE Project' box: I'm not sure we need that, maybe we should just > add more links > in the text on the left side, as those links are also in the header and the > footer > Instead of this I would add an additional box with the latest community > blogs from planetsuse. > > Could you push this to our infrastructure svn at: > https://developer.berlios.de/projects/opensuse/ > So we can work together on it? > > Greetings > > -- > Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) > openSUSE Boosters Team > "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
