new design: request for comments

[Livnat Peer]

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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