Re: [libreoffice-website] Long pages should broken up into smaller slides/pages

Ok, since a picture speaks a thousand words, I decided to mockup my "vision".

http://www.filefactory.com/file/b567dg2/n/mockup1.png

It's about splitting up the page into manageable chunks, that are
visually intuitive.

Hopefully you can criticize the idea to improve, or reform, it's basic
foundation.

On 14 February 2011 09:55, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>        So - first it is important to realise that (as expected) this "new
> features" web-page is the #2 most read page on the site, after the
> "Download" page.
>
>        So - whatever we do, it needs to be:
>
>        a) highly polished
> and     b) present as much 'wow' as possible in as little
>           space as possible
>
> On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 03:22 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> > > Basically - make it lots of smaller pages.
> > Basically: Yes.
>
>        So - IMHO the lots of little pages idea is a disaster for loosing user
> interest; the latency of loading a new page, and/or the UI complexity
> (imagine eg. a mobile phone device and the disaster of tab switching and
> the multi-second page load latency) is problematic here.
>
> > We need to work on most of the pages to reduce the amount of text and
> > add more graphical content.
>
>        This I agree with.
>
>        IMHO - we should separate the information on the page into two strands:
>
>        * features that are distinctive to LibreOffice
>                + this still will remain static / un-changed and only
>                  grow and/or require minor edits over time I think.
>
>        * new features in the latest release
>
>        Now - of course, this interacts with our Bandwidth story - that page is
> stuffed full of big images scaled only on the client ;-) so - serving it
> is a bit of a pain, and slower than necessary.
>
>        I suspect we would be better served by having a table of thumbnails at
> the top (as now), perhaps split into two pieces "new new" and
> "distinctives". And then, (perhaps) some textual content below it, and
> perhaps two or more (but not a dozen) separate pages with more content
> describing each feature (?).
>
> > I added Michael Meeks to CC, because he has been the driving force
> > behind this page.
>
>        Only because my suspicions (strongly confirmed by the numbers) were
> that this would be the #1 or #2 page on our site, and it was initially
> terrible, but is now a -lot- better (but still needs love as we see) :-)
>
>        Anyhow - it would be fantastic to have people giving some love, and
> thought to this page, and really I'm no web designer; but have pity on
> those that are. Silverstripe (and Drupal) do not make it easy to manage
> lots of images (FWIW), so ... changes in that area can be lots of point,
> click, drag, click, point (etc. etc. - did I mention - I *loathe* -all-
> web GUIs that have no sane key-navigation, search/replace/ etc. ;-)
>
>        So - to re-iterate; my requirements would be:
>
>        a) Be careful, think hard, understand this is -the- key entry
>           point linked in the media etc.
>        b) Consider clueful users' news reading habits: triage news
>           pages, middle clicking interesting things, then reading /
>           closing tabs one by one.
>                + IMHO expecting lots of focused, high latency,
>                  multi-click attention on us is unrealistic for the
>                  majority use-case
>                + Ergo a dozen of must-click-somewhere-else pages may
>                  have some esthetic pleasure from a design perspective
>                  but will (I think) suck completely from a getting-lots
>                  of-richness-to-many-eyeballs perspective :-)
>                + so please don't hyper-fragment the information.
>
>        Apart from that - go go go ! :-)
>
>        ATB,
>
>                Michael.
>
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>
>
>
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