Hi Christian et al: Thanks for this.
Le 2012-02-19 10:33, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
Hi *,
despite some details not being perfect, the simplified download page
is now activated on www.libreoffice.org
activated = now new-style is in menu, old one was removed from menu,
frontpage links to newstyle-downlaod
However pages below old download have not been moved yet (or better:
URL-segment has not been exchanged, so new-style is still download35
instead of download) so that when you visit the release notes you
won't get the "Download" in the first navigation highlighted.
ciao
Christian
Here is what I do like:
* "Release notes" are now in prominence and users will read it, HOWEVER,
the "release notes page" is difficult to read -- it should be broken up
by OS, people are really not interested in reading about other systems.
They go there to read up on their OS requirements/setups.
* "X.X.X Features" are now in prominence and users will now actually
look at these! Thanks.
* Finally! our license is more at the forefront and even if users will
only skim or not even go to the page, we will train our downloaders to
recognize the acronym "LPGL" which is good marketing. Let's not forget
that this is one of the largest reason we quote people for adopting our
software.
* buttons -- I like the simplicity. HOWEVER people may get confused over
the "torrent" designation on the buttons and may wrongly assume that
they are to download in "torrent", which, for the vast majority of users
is still unknown territory. Do we really need torrent download? Can our
servers serve our user base without torrents? We are as large as the
Mozilla project -- do they use torrents? Do we not have enough server
capacity?
What I think is missing:
* java! This keeps coming up all the time with user complaints. The
dreaded "Java is missing" message. This should be addressed on the page,
especially seeing as the majority of our downloaders are Windows users.
*NOTE that I particularly like the way this is treated on the
http://fr.libreoffice.org/telecharger/#script_telechargement page. This
gives the user clear information on Java. I would also place the Java
warning note right under the buttons as this takes precedence over the
SDK and Source code notes.
* I also download 3 (EN,FR,ES) interfaces and the steps to do so are
quite lengthy. This needs to be streamlined more.
* "Handy ressources" should have one more entry saying either "Last
stable version" or something like that, and, route people to the 3.4.x
features page. This page should then have a sentence saying something
like "Recommended for those needing a fully stable product." or
something such as this. This may be of importance for institutional
installations where a stable product is important and often necessary
for implementation. People needing this last version could then find
their way back to the downloads page OR we could hang a download button
on the 3.4 page to ease them back to a simplified 3.4.x download page
(preferred).
Overall, I think this is an improvement. Offering people the choice of
one product is great. Now if we could just get the updates on the fly
rather than whole re-installation bit. ... :-)
Cheers
Marc
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