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Re: [opensuse-wiki] [FPR] Home page: 2nd stage of proposals
- From: Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:59:15 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607271151140.25206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, houghi wrote:
> > That's nice! How about using a bigger openSUSE logo? And maybe adding
> > some stats on each wiki (like "1000+ pages") below each language,
> > using smaller letters of course.
>
> Indeed much better already, yet it still feels as if it does not belong
> to the rest of the website. The moment you choose a language, it
> suddenly looks and feels completely different. Something I also dislike
> about http://wikipedia.org
>
> My proposal http://houghi.org/suse/home_houghi2.html would take care of
> that. ;-)
Frankly, I didn't really like that approach. The side and top bars feel
misplaced somehow.
> > We could also try to place a direct link to download.openSUSE.org on
> > the splash / portal page, to always highlight the latests version and
> > get people to download openSUSE!
>
> Yes, yes, yes. See my earlier remarks of having a link to ONLY the
> latest stable version. And that needs to be done in one go.
>
> > But adding a seach box to it is much more important IMO :)
>
> My proposal gives you the search in the place where you expect it to be.
Having it on the front splash / portal my be advantageous, as people will
notice it in any case.
> Having the search in different languages on each page, is that something
> worth thinking about (stating the page of the language as a default).
> e.g. when I am on a page that is not in Dutch, I could still search for
> Dutch content.
Let's try not to distract our users :) Having the portal / splash page
modeled around the wikipeda portal with it's multi-language search is
probably the way to go. It seems to have worked out very well for wikipeda
in the past :)
> OTOH, we are talking about just one page. Just put something there and
> let us get on with it. We will never find something everybody will like.
The splash / portal is probably one of the most important pages! Disussing
it in detail and reaching a consensus on this topic is very much
reasonable :)
Regards
Christoph
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> > That's nice! How about using a bigger openSUSE logo? And maybe adding
> > some stats on each wiki (like "1000+ pages") below each language,
> > using smaller letters of course.
>
> Indeed much better already, yet it still feels as if it does not belong
> to the rest of the website. The moment you choose a language, it
> suddenly looks and feels completely different. Something I also dislike
> about http://wikipedia.org
>
> My proposal http://houghi.org/suse/home_houghi2.html would take care of
> that. ;-)
Frankly, I didn't really like that approach. The side and top bars feel
misplaced somehow.
> > We could also try to place a direct link to download.openSUSE.org on
> > the splash / portal page, to always highlight the latests version and
> > get people to download openSUSE!
>
> Yes, yes, yes. See my earlier remarks of having a link to ONLY the
> latest stable version. And that needs to be done in one go.
>
> > But adding a seach box to it is much more important IMO :)
>
> My proposal gives you the search in the place where you expect it to be.
Having it on the front splash / portal my be advantageous, as people will
notice it in any case.
> Having the search in different languages on each page, is that something
> worth thinking about (stating the page of the language as a default).
> e.g. when I am on a page that is not in Dutch, I could still search for
> Dutch content.
Let's try not to distract our users :) Having the portal / splash page
modeled around the wikipeda portal with it's multi-language search is
probably the way to go. It seems to have worked out very well for wikipeda
in the past :)
> OTOH, we are talking about just one page. Just put something there and
> let us get on with it. We will never find something everybody will like.
The splash / portal is probably one of the most important pages! Disussing
it in detail and reaching a consensus on this topic is very much
reasonable :)
Regards
Christoph
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