Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (66 mails)

[Robert Lihm <rlihm@xxxxxxx>]

Hey!

On 11.11.2007, at 16:52, Sven Burmeister wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Please perform the following experiment:
>
> Take somebody you know and never has been to www.opensuse.org  
> before. Tell him
> to find help/support on that site. Stop the time until the user  
> finds the
> links to help/support. My guess: it takes ages to even get to the  
> page where
> one could find it because the frontpage does not even mention  
> support/help
> and wiki is not a synonym for those words.
>
> Take the same person and stop the time until he finds help/support on
> www.ubuntu.com.
>
> Compare both sites' performance.
>
> Tell that person that one has to click on wiki, stop the time until  
> the person
> finds help/support on the following page. My guess: it takes ages  
> because
> help is only mentioned once and as a tiny, tiny link and that link  
> does not
> even link to helo/support but to download-help.
>
> Sorry to be that sarcastic, but one could think that opensuse.org  
> maintainers
> do not expect a lot of users to come to this site looking for help.
>
> My suggestion, put a big fat icon on the frontpage and the following  
> that
> displays a question-mark and a link below it that states: help/ 
> support.
>
> In fact help on opensuse.org is artificially split into communicate  
> and
> documentation both not being as straight forward as a simple big  
> icon and the
> two words/help/support.
>
> Sven
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I totally agree, that the help.o.o page is not easy to find when you  
come from the web. You have the same situation with news.o.o and  
users.o.o. Tat is pretty bad!
Well, the front-page was made at a time, when opensuse.org had only a  
download-page, wiki and the Build Service. That's the reason, why e.g.  
help.o.o is not listed.
I think, the easiest way to face this problem is a combo box on the  
fist page, which contains all sub-pages (like the language combo box  
at "discover it").
That would be a good workaround for a while.

Any vetoes? I could do it in the next days.

Cheers!
Robert


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