Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: new features page ...

Hi Christoph, David, all,

Round 2!

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Ideally, the preview would provide the full screenshot to appear
> (Christian worked on something like that before).

We can easily throw in a lightbox:
http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/

This one allows very basic captions by grabbing the title attribute of
the <a> tag and displaying it in the lightbox itself.

> And even more ideally,
> users may just browse / being browsed through a collection of
> screenshots (with some brief words) that "visually" explains the new
> features. Oh, I seem to start dreaming :-) Just ideas...

Here's something that might do the job (again, with simple captions):
http://nivo.dev7studios.com/

It's easy enough to do (technically); what we really need are good
screenshots and text.

These are just some of the many options at our disposal...

> [...]
> My proposal was to pick up everything that had been included in the
> first LibO release, and to check against the strongest wishes of our
> user base (happily, we do have this data - so we can avoid too much
> guessing). So, our end-users can quickly find what's important to them:
> More downloads --> more happy users --> more market share --> more
> attractive project --> more users, developers, sponsors, ... :-)
>
> Although developers invest a lot of effort to work on important stuff,
> some of this work has almost no end-user related impact on LibreOffice
> (now). The job of marketing and UX is to help to connect the both (let's
> call it) worlds of "users" and "development" :-)

+1. Of course, developers are most welcome to join the lists and add
their thoughts.

Regards,
Ivan.

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