On 4.11.2014 15:29, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
See attached screenshot with the first draft of the redesign made by Ken Wimer for http://yast.github.io/
It looks much nicer and more modern and it also makes obvious that we need to discuss something about the website's target audience and, thus, the best information structure.
Originally it was targeted to developers (with the idea of keeping the user oriented information in the openSUSE wiki). 90% of the content was in the "get involved" page. Even the "modules" section was intended to be specially useful for developers. The front page was there just because we needed one. :-)
I'd keep the target audience. Yast IRC channel is for Yast developers. Yast GitHub page should be for developers as well. We do not want to create another (Yast) support channel. Having all at the same level is a good step IMO.
But then we started to add more "sales" content into the front page, blurring the target a little bit. It's not that bad because is still clear that everything under the "get involved" section is targeted to developers (or contributors in general).
That's fine, we need to sell Yast. And good UI sells it better than just text.
In the layout proposed by Ken (it's just a draft), the subsections targeted to developers "getting started", "development documentation" and "processes and guidelines" are at the same level than the rest. It makes sense to make the information more visible at a first glance, not hiding 90% of the content behind the "get involved" link, but in my opinion that also means that we should change the front page content and style to make obvious that it's a developer's portal, not a product page. Unless we want it to be both things (I don't think it makes much sense for us, I would stick to developers as only target).
Just one thing: Yet another Setup Tool? Oh, what a name! Sadly, we have inherited this from the fathers of `90s. Er, one another: I'd add a note about how to contribute to Yast landing page itself -> link to the project? Thanks for taking care Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, Systems Management (Yast) Team Leader Cloud & Systems Management Department, SUSE Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org