new design: request for comments

[Garrett LeSage]

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!


> - 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.)

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".


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