On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:09 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 4/25/06, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The R Web site is working fine. Even if it is not relifted from a long > > > time, it is functional. So, this is the point... and it should remain, > > > at least, as functional as it is. > > > > As an experienced user of the R website, this probably is true for > > you. However, there are a number of confusing problems for new users > > of the site: > > > > * how do you download R? > > * how do you bookmark a specific page? > > * what is that giant graphic on the home page? > > * can't get to contributed docs directly from home page
Isn't Other > Contributed Documentation sufficient? Usability guidelines for websites suggest that you should have as few top-level menu items as possible, say 5-6 max... OK the R website is not like <insert_company_name>.com type website, but you wouldn't want to flood users with too many options up front. G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% * Note new Address, Telephone & Fax numbers from 6th April 2006 * %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson ECRC & ENSIS [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 UCL Department of Geography [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ London, UK. [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ WC1E 6BT. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
