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!
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