On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Scott Ritchie<[email protected]> wrote: > Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. > The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a > lot of the actual words trouble me. There's a lot of stuff from the > dark ages still lurking around that we don't actually want users to see. > > Accordingly, I've been rewriting and deleting a few things and will be > sending lostwages patches in, however I'd like to discuss the changes > here in case there's any objections. > > 1) Delete the "Link to us" section on the downloads page. No one uses > this graphic and the information is just noise. > > 2) Remove the unmaintained porting status page: > http://www.winehq.org/status/porting - I don't believe this data is > useful to anyone, and if it is it should be imported into the wiki so it > can actually be updated. > > 3) Remove the "Wine Features" page: http://www.winehq.org/wine_features > - From a user's perspective, the main feature of Wine can be > communicated very simply: run Windows programs. We can do this much > more effectively earlier in the website, such as on the About page. > More worrisome about the features page, though, is what it doesn't > contain - a user seeing a (seemingly) exhaustive list and actually > reading it might incorrectly conclude that his particular program or > device doesn't work. The features page is also prone to be out of date. > > > I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused > rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the > moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may potentially dismiss us > as amateurish or too complicated based on our web site. > > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > >
Small suggestion from me: On the index page, change "Information" into "About". * About is a keyword used in many apps that means: "info about this program" * The icon already tells you it's information. * "Information" is very broad. Most of the site is information. Remco
