Re: URGENT Re: [libreoffice-website] Improving download page

Hi all,

This thread is because:
- the download page is nominated for improvement some time already;
- the mockups and wording at the wiki (from June/July last year) 
represent the idea to hide the new version (currently 3.5.0) and use the 
old as 'stable'
- we want to be 3.5.0 to be strongly promoted. If not as default, then 
in any case very visible and attractive.

See the introduction at the top op my initial mail:
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/msg07141.html

The rough mockups that I made, were just to show three possible 
situations. Situations that we have seen, and have been discussing.
 1- the release must be promoted but with care ;
 2- the release is considered good enough for non-expert installation 
and use
 3- the release is simply default
See the explanation at the right side of the mockups.

The colors I used are bad. The visual representation wrecked, the 
wording open for improvement :-)

If Devs/QA decide that 3.5.0 is simply default, OK, then we simply have 
'design' 3.
And if in the future, we never need 'design' 1 and 2: so much the better :-)

There are of course many similarities with Christophs far better looking 
mockups. But the discussion is in the differences.

Cheers,
Cor

Italo Vignoli wrote (12-02-12 00:34)
> Apologies, I did not realize what was happening on the download page.
> Sorry for jumping in so late.
>
> On 2/11/12 11:54 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
>
> > Looking at the new proposals at [1], the major difference (I seem to be
> > able to spot) is the decision to present "LibO 3.5.0 Early Adopters" as
> > the default download page.
>
> Please take away the Early Adopters from the button. The button should
> read "Download LibreOffice 3.5". Nothing less, nothing more.
>
> The other button should read: "Download LibreOffice Previous Version",
> but the button should be smaller (but I am more flexible on the second one).
>
> At the moment, the two buttons are not in line with the announcement of
> LibreOffice 3.5, which is taglined "the best free office suite ever",
> and might create some confusion.
>
> LibreOffice 3.4 was in a completely different situation, and we had to
> face it telling users that it was not ready for corporate adoption.
>
> LibreOffice 3.5 is more mature and more stable. The press release is
> explaining to end users what they should do.
>
> Thanks, Italo


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 - Cor
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