Re: [libreoffice-website] simpler downlod page enabled for evaluation/feedback (was: A simpler download page)

On 14-02-2012 12:48, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> thanks to Anders' work, the simplified/buttonized download page is
> available online for testing at https://www.libreoffice.org/download35
Nice!

> selection of language doesn't work well
What do you find problematic and do you have any ideas how to fix it?

> and when manually choosing it isn't  obvious that it is a
> multi-step process
I think you are right. Perhaps it could be fixed by simply adding a 
breadcrumb-tails or a page count in the header (as Thorsten also 
suggested, although for the footer). But it shouldn't get to noisy.

> And a few theming issues (when there are no "related pages", the void
> space should be filled with something else, now the english page looks
> like something is missing (as the related pages haven't been tagged
> like described below)
I imagine that there will always be related pages (at least the LGPL 
page chould be tagged with "dl" to always show up). But there seems to 
be a problem at the bottom left since there is no probable nor ISOs. Not 
sure what to do for those. Perhaps split the remaining in two columns or 
just move it to the left.

> I think at first we should make it en-US only and only use it at the
> frontpage, as translations are missing anyway. (i.e. always start of
> with presenting the download buttons, and if in doubt the windows
> download if OS or language cannot be guessed)
If the download buttons should go on the front page, then the detection 
code and button drawing needs to be extracted and the page to go to for 
other downloads should be configurable for the localized sites, since 
they don't use /download/.

But the download experience first get good when the localized interfaces 
and help files are changed to be extensions that are automatically 
fetched when a language is chosen, such that the download will be a 
one-file-download.

> > Note that the release notes and feature pages are shown to the right of the
> > download buttons (as in Nics proposal) such that sub-menu is not needed
> > (pre-releases and portable version are already on page). To make it easy for
> > editors, the pages that should be shown can be "tagged" using the
> > Meta-Keywords: Putting "download3.4.5" in there for page will cause it to
> > show up for the 3.4.5 releases, "download3.4" for all 3.4.x downloads and so
> > on.
The pattern was changed to "dlver-3.4.5", "dlver-3.4", ... for versions 
and the option to filter by type via "dltype-src" was added. This was 
done since when downloading source packages, you should probably get a 
link to the source code repositories or compilation instructions, and 
for e.g. the windows platform a direct link to the windows installation 
instructions. It would be nice if somebody with access tried adding the 
tags.

--
Anders

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