Re: [libreoffice-website] A simpler download page

On 12-02-2012 07:41, Christian Kühl wrote:
> thank you for your proposals.
> Some thoughts from my point of view.
Thanks you, for your response. I just hope it (or another 
implementation) could be enabled on the live site soon.

> Am 11.02.2012 21:01, schrieb Anders Holbøll:
> > http://andershol.github.com/cms-code-demo/download-detected.html
>
> I think the version number should be displayed onto the download button
> too.

As the version number for all the downloads on the page is displayed in 
the top of the screen (that info could perhaps be moved to the title), I 
think it would confuse people more to show it on the individual links 
since they might think they need to check that they are getting matching 
versions. So I think that only the things that are different between the 
links should be shown.

(BTW, after surveying the international sites and finding several (e.g. 
ar, el, eo, gd, gl) that still had "3.3" on their download button on the 
front page)

> > If the user chooses to "Change System or Language", the user is lead
> > though these pages. Using separate pages makes it easier to fit
> > sufficient descriptions to hopefully make the "Download
> > instructions"-page unnecessary:
> > http://andershol.github.com/cms-code-demo/select-type.html
> > http://andershol.github.com/cms-code-demo/select-language.html
> > http://andershol.github.com/cms-code-demo/select-version.html
>
> For reaching the separate pages easier I think, three links for "type",
> "language", and "version" should be displayed to change the three
> settings separately - perhaps below the buttons - and don't need to go
> through all steps every time.

Since not all versions is available in all languages or on all 
platforms, the selections depend on each other. Instead of trying to 
explain that to the user or having the user get surprised over having to 
change a depended selection, I found it simpler to only give the user 
one choice. They wont need to change it "every time" since they will 
hopefully be detected correctly most of the time.

--
Anders

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