12:08 p.m.
On 17/08/12 11:29, Garrett LeSage wrote:
On Thu 16 Aug 2012 07:44:29 PM CEST, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> Looks ten times better than current site!
Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
I also find this much better than what we have today.
Adding more comments in context.
> - My 1366x768 laptop display cannot keep up with the length and width
> of the page.
This mockup is a static PNG (which happens to be 1020×1192). I'll make
sure the actual page adapts to different resolutions.
(It will definitely work fine on your resolution without horizontal
scrolling.)
> - I'm not sure what is the different between the 'use' and
> 'documentation', and community and develop - they are tightly
> together. How about 'Use' - 'Interact' - 'Contribute' : use
(which
> will encompass download and documentation), Contribute (for develop)
> and Interact (for community)
I'm open for discussing the wording.
However, I chose the names for the navigation for a few reasons:
1) People are strongly conditioned to look for the word "download". It's
an very important keyword to have on every software-related site. I
added "use" there as well, as a place to give quick start information as
well as possible uses — the latter of which would link to the
documentation. (Use = getting started information.)
+1 for using download.
The download is something users are looking for but I think we don't
need to add 'Use' there as well.
the quick start information can be a link under documentation and even
if we add a link to that next in the download page I think it does not
have to be reflected in the main navigation link.
2) Community is a commonly used word among developers, so it's used in
the mockup for similar reasons. (It's not as strong as a word as
download is, however, but it does have a extremely close association
with FOSS projects.) The section will contain information about the
community involvement, governance, mailing lists, and information on how
to join IRC.
Documentation is a top-level section, as:
• we have quite a lot of documentation already
• it provides a quick link for those who want to do something more with
the oVirt instance they have set up
• it is primarily focused on end-user documentation, not developer
documentation (hence the develop area)
As for your other suggestions:
• Interact may mean interacting with the oVirt software, the oVirt
community, or even oVirt.org itself (as if the site would be a hosted
service, for example). It's a bit ambiguous, and the navigation should
strive to be very clear places to navigate to.
• "Contribute" might work instead of "develop".
How about 'Developers' ?
Contribute is not clear as we consider many forms of participation to be
contributions, like reporting on bugs and responding to mails on the
lists etc.
Summary: I chose the sections, words, and even the order for the
navigation with purpose. Your suggestion of "contribute" could be a
replacement for "develop", but it would require further thought (and
perhaps some discussion).
Thanks for your feedback!
Garrett
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