Re: [libreoffice-website] donation button on main page

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 12:53 -0500, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Drew,
>
> Nice on both counts. I like the idea of the PayPal being just another 
> small button in the list of Visa, MasterCard, Amex, PayPal. No need to 
> separate the PayPal from the other methods of payment.
>
> Le 2011-12-13 11:18, drew a écrit :
> > Two mockup of a donate button in the header - with the idea of this just
> > being a link to an appropriate donate page.
> >
> > Since the space was removed from the right side of the header I thought
> > it would make sense to set a wrap for longer site names..
> >
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Mockup_long_name.png
> >
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Mockup_short_name.png
> >
> > //drew
>
> The problem with NL groups is that they, more often than not, are not 
> able to change the "Donate" button to their native language. It would be 
> great if there was a page where someone would act as point man and code 
> the button for the NL groups. Then the NL groups could just ask the 
> point man to create the button for them. Same thing I guess with the 
> "Home of the LibreOffice --  Productivity Suite".
>
> If it is in English, then the NL groups will probably not want to put it 
> in their header. If someone openly offered to help code the button and 
> header, then these will get posted. For example the "Donate" button in 
> this case would probably be "lahjoittaa" (someone would have to check 
> with a member of the Finish group though).
<snip>

Alright, i went to the paypal site and used the web form there to
generate a custom button.

I'd not done that before and didn't realize that 
- I choose a button type with no fields for amounts, just the button.
- I choose to use a custom graphic
-- By default the use of the custom graphic is not hosted by paypal!!

it is simply a html web form, it generates the html and you copy paste.
- a few hidden fields preloaded with my choices 
- orginzation / (ID) optional / puupose
- country / currency codes
- etc
- a href to the custom graphic
- a href to a 1px bug graphic from paypal (call home ET :)
- a post command

So - we could try:

A graphic on the header that links to our donation page
 - we make a simple base design w/ no text element
 - the different theme per language can float the graphic and place the
link as text over top, so correct language is maintained by the nl site
maintaners.
 - the link is to our donate page
 
The donate page is already internationalized (virtualized in
Silverstripe) isn't it?
 - if not there is no reason not to use that

The real form for paypal post is on this virtualized page, and now it
appears very simple to change the field values to appropriate settings
for the sites local, as part of creating the translated page.

Also - and I would suggest doing this.

We could start with just a few sites: en, de, fr, es perhaps.

The header change can be limited to them, and we should be able to
generated translated donation pages fairly quickly from these groups.

Then try it for a month.

The next month try having the button graphic on the header be the actual
html form, since only the graphic is displayed it should not make any
visidble change to the sites.

This second month then we are bypassig the jump to the donation page -
one less click-thru, and we can compare the results.

//drew



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