Hi! Somehow, every time I want to d/l the development version, I notice that the "menu" at the top of the download-page (Downloads: Released Version - Development Version...) but also the one at the very top (Communicate , Download...), are just not where I look for what I am searching.
My eyes seem to start reading where the text begins, i.e. "Choose the Version". If it is not just me, one could think about how to improve that issue, either by changing the format, the place or the arrangement of the menus. As the menu above the first heading seems to be a TOC, on should maybe arrange its items horizontally, as one is used to from books or wikipedia. Am Freitag, 10. Februar 2006 17:28 schrieb houghi: > Thiese are mainly about the left side links. Especially the "Use SUSE > Linux" should be dealth with better. Proposal: > > Use SUSE Linux > New Users Start Here > Downloads > Producs Highlights > User Documentation > PowerPC Documentation > Developer Documentation > Projects What I miss in the wording used in the menus is the word "help". I think that users that get on the start-page are either looking for "download" or "help", so adding a big icon for "help" would help a lot. Maybe one could even place a search next to it. Clicking on help, should offer the different channels there are for getting help. There is interactive help (mailinglists, irc-chat, forums), there are articles written by users and there is documentation. I am not sure why, but documentation for me is something different than "hints and tricks" or HOWTOs. Documentation is more like man-pages, i.e. a manual. Anyway, clicking on help offers the channels, i.e.: Interactive help: IRC-Chat Mailinglist Forum Newsgroup HOWTOs/Hints Software Network/Internet Sound Printing Documentation User-Manual FAQ Admin-Manual For each section on the "interactive channel"-page, there should be a HOWTO, in order to explain the usage of a medium, e.g. clicking on IRC-Chat would get you to the IRC-Chat-heading on the channel-page and offer a list of channels sorted by language. Yet the first thing offered below the heading should be a link to a HOWTO that explains which application to use, how to install it, how to set it up. This will ensure that new users can participate, even if they are not familiar with IRC. I think it would also be a good idea to add not only suse-help but also IRC-channels, forums and mailinglists for the big software-packages coming with suse, like OpenOffice, KDE and GNOME. Finally I want to mention that I do not think that it is a good idea to arrange any TOC vertically, as it is e.g. done in the "Browse articles by category". What makes this even worse is the small font. So please increase the font-size! Sven --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
