Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
* The text links at the bottom (Get Software ... Wiki ... Build Service) should be up top rather than at the bottom.
We decided to put them to the lower bottom from an aesthetic point of view. IMHO it is a learned habit that if the meta-navigation is not on the upper right side, it can be found in the page footer.
* It's necessary to scroll to get to a lot of the content. I don't think this is entirely avoidable, but maybe it'd be possible to minimize this?
Whitespace is good! We did not want to fill every available space which would make the pake look rather packed. Now, it has a certain ease to it. IMHO vertical scrolling is very common for web pages and as long as you do not need to scroll for ages to reach the relevant parts of a website, that's fine. We tried to put the most common tasks on top (get, discover, build) while most users will have their deeplinks for the other pages.
I'm not a designer, but I'm wondering if it might make better use of space to include the search bar in the grey box on the page?
Robert loves his searchbar! :-) The seperation and position gives the page an organic feeling to it. We scribbled other suggestions but were not too pleased with the results.
Overall, I'm greatly impressed with this design. Andreas and Robert - looks great!
Thank you! :-) Greets, Andreas -- Skype: andreas.demmer ICQ: 103 924 771 http://www.andreas-demmer.de