Hi Sharan, +1 on all points, with the following additional comments:
On May 26, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Sharan-F <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > I'd like to start a discussion about changing and updating our main project > website. We have had our current side for quite a while now and I think that > it would be good to update it. > > Here are some of my initial thoughts > > 1. Our logo takes up less space now and we have a lot of space at the top so > perhaps we could look at moving the navigation bar into this area +1 We could also improve the quality/resolution of the current logo. > 2. A lot of the links on the right hand side could be moved into a drop down > navigation bar to give us more space Or moved to a secondary page; but please consider that the links under "Apache Software Foundation" are requested by the ASF; or at least were requested and before moving them in a less prominent position we should check with the ASF. > 3. The site itself contains a lot of words which I think makes it hard for > visitors to see what is important > 4. If we want to focus on potential visitor types (e.g. developers and > business users) then we need to adapt the website and highlight what would > interest them and encourage them into trying OFBiz > 5. At the moment he biggest thing we highlight is downloading OFBiz (yet why > would someone download if they are not sure that it meets their needs). > 6. On my version of linux (14.04 LTS) the webpage doesn't fill the screen > (I'm not sure if that is just me!) > 7. We have links to two versions of OFBiz demos (do we really need 2?) > without any instructions for users as to what they need to do. If for some > reason they are logged out they have no instructions how to log in again. We can keep the links to one and then move the others to a less prominent place/page. > > 8. The 'News' section is very static and gets out of date quickly. We have > resurrected our blog so perhaps it would be better to replace this with a > blog feed instead. +1 Jacopo > > What do people think? I'm happy to hear any other ideas that people may > have. > > If feedback is positive then I'd like to start work on a new draft website > that could be presented to back the community. Only if accepted will we do > the changeover. > > Also I'm not a graphical person or a website designer so would be looking > for some volunteers to help me put this together. > > Thanks > Sharan > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/MARKETING-Updating-our-OFBiz-Website-tp4668990.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
