[libreoffice-website] Re: Website Redesign - Beta

Hi Charles,

Le 2014-01-21 04:15, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
> Hello there,
>
> I'd like to present you with a beta of the upcoming website -some
> already saw it, this time, the homepage has been edited, images
> selected, etc. We miss some  integration of text, rss feeds and twitter
> widgets. The Discover section also received images, and the community
> section is under heavy work. We are integrating the Download, Donate
> pages and we need to work on the Events Page as well.
>
> http://newdesign.libreoffice.org
>
> Feedback -other than details that were already specified in the specs-
> welcome!
>
> Best,

Congrats to all involved and especially to Eleonora! Looks good! Nice!

Some of my comments:

* Love the menu arrangements

* I would double the "Templates and Extensions" from the "DISCOVER" menu 
and place it in the "Download" sub-menu as some users visiting the site 
will automatically seek it out there. There is no need to make them 
search for these on the other menus. I would put it under "Development 
Versions"
** note that "Development versions" should be "Development Versions"

* IMO, the "Get Help" section should follow some kind of rational 
thought something like the user should exhaust all avenues of self-help 
before going on to any other type of help. So, IMO, the "Get Help" 
should then follow the following rationale for the sub-menu lines:

GET HELP
* System Requirements
* Installation Instructions
* Documentation
* Nabble Forums <-- I would include the word "Forums"
* Community Support
* Professional Support
* Accessibility
* Feedback
* Bug Submission Assistant

* IMO "COMMUNITY" section, I would re-organize it to reflect our 
communities, but in alphabetical order so as not to show any preference 
order, Then it becomes obvious to our visitor that we are all inclusive 
and not focused on one particular group. We could still focus on one 
group internally, but just not make it obvious on our website. The last 
3 menu items would be the pads, OwnCloud, Wiki but also in alphabetical 
order.

So, IMO, the re-organization of sub-menu items would look like this:

COMMUNITY
* Docs Team
* Get Involved
* Developers
* Design
* Infrastructure
* Localization
* Marketing
* Native-Lang Projects
* Testing - QA
--spacer --
Pads
OwnCloud
Wiki

* Event -- if I understand from our previous discussion on this, you are 
looking at more of an list with icons of events in date order, then a 
link to our Google Calendar? It is also a shame that the "EVENTS" menu 
takes up its own space on the main menu line. If we wanted to conserve 
space it could very well be placed under "COMMUNITY" at the bottom of 
the menu list. I am not sure that the events page will warrant enough 
clicks to give it such a prominent spot, but it fits quite well under 
"COMMUNITY"

* ABOUT US -- is a strange beast as it seems to speak to the same as 
"COMMUNITY", but I guess the idea is that this is more of a wholistic 
view of the TDF. I wonder if this is really the right site to put 
"Governance of the TDF" part. But the bottom section "The LibreOffice 
Project" should be in the "ABOUT US" Perhaps, as a suggeston reverse the 
paragraphs and use "The LibreOffice Project" as the intro paragraph to 
the "The Document Foundation" section. This to me would seem more 
rational seeing as we are on the LibreOffice site and not on The 
Document Foundation site.

** note that there should be a capital "P" on "The LibreOffice Project".
** note that in that paragraph: "... community as well as by the 
Document Foundation bodies ..." should be "... as by The Document 
Foundation bodies ..."

** Certification .. when you click on this item, it leads to the 
certification page. I would re-title this page to "LibreOffice 
Certification" just to make it crystal clear that this is what we are 
reading. Otherwise, it reads as it people are getting TDF Certification 
or are people getting "TDF Certification"?

* Home page
** On my 24inch monitor with 1400x1050, the text and carousel are quite 
large. It would be nice if the final product could get the part below 
the carousel to show on the screen along with the carousel ... I guess 
this would mean reducing the size of the carousel images to allow the 
"Fee Office Suite" "Fun Project" and "Fantastic People" to appear on the 
same screen. This will also allow for less "up and down" scrolling by 
the user.
** I wonder if there could be a way to stop the carousel?  There is no 
way to leave the LibreOffice site on a screen and have it remain static. 
The scrolling speed also seems to be too quick.

Overall, great job at redesign. Like it!

Cheers,

Marc--
Marc Paré
Marc@MarcPare.com
http://www.parEntreprise.com
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