On Do, 2011-07-21 at 11:10 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > I suggest some simple structural changes to the website, to make things > clearer: > > 1. Remove the wiki link. > > We should just accept that the website _is_ a wiki. That "main page" > page has become a target of random user feedback. That's not the best > place for it. > > Partly because of the text sizes and layout, the comments look like main > (rather random) content at first glance.
I agree that this is problematic. But technically there is a difference between the rest of the web site and the Wiki part: normal users may only edit the Wiki pages. Are you suggesting that all pages should be editable by anyone? > The "Wiki Pages" list block can be moved to the Documentation page. By > the way, how do we add to that list? Via the "Wiki" box, with "Add Wiki Page". > 2. Remove About > > - The first paragraph duplicates the introductory text on the Home page. > - Move part of History to the Home page, simplifying it. > - Move Features to the Home page. > - Move "SyncEvolution Core and Synthesis SyncML Engine", "Backends", and > "Frontends" to Documentation as separate sub-pages, linking to them from > our introductory text on the Home page. Okay. > 3. Add a real Downloads page. > This is currently just a directory listing. There should be some brief > text and a description of each binary and how to install it. What kind of text and description would you expect for, e.g., http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/evolution/syncevolution-evolution-1.1.99.5b-2.x86_64.rpm ? While I agree that this is useful, I'm a bit weary of the additional overhead for each release. > 2. Remove comments. > The comments don't seem like the best way to deal with feedback, and > they distract from the main contact. Even in the best case, old comments > will still be there after their feedback has been dealt with by > improvements in the page itself, distracting from that content and > giving the initial impression that those problems still exist. Just to be sure, you suggest to remove obsolete comments, not the comment feature itself, right? Would it make sense to move comments to an "archive" or "discussion" page? Many users left comments randomly anyway, without directly referring to the current page. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.syncevolution.org/listinfo/syncevolution
