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<p>Ok... I decided to go ahead and alter my latest design to accomodate some of Dave's suggestions:</p>
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<p><a href="http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0008c.png">http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0008c.png</a></p>
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<p>Buttons were added, some link names were changed/removed, etc.</p>
<p>T.</p>
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<strong>Subject: </strong>Re: maemo.org redesign<br />
<strong>From: </strong>Dave Neary <dneary@maemo.org><br />
<strong>To: </strong>"Tim" <tim@samoff.com>,"List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
<strong>CC: </strong>"Quim Gil" <quim.gil@nokia.com><br />
<strong>Date: </strong>10/08/2008 6:52 am<br />
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Hi,<br />
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Tim wrote:<br />
> New design concept here:<br />
> <br />
> http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0008b.png<br />
> <http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0008b.png<br />
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A few things have dropped off the past few rounds of mock-ups which I<br />
think are pretty important - I'm going to comment with a question:<br />
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The guy who comes to the site to get help with a problem - where will he<br />
click?<br />
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The guy who wants to find out how he can help, or how he can give<br />
feedback - where does he click?<br />
<br />
I think we definitely need to address this use-vase prominently - right<br />
now, he has maybe 5/6 links to consider: "Mailing lists",<br />
"Documentation", "Users united", "Bugzilla", "Wiki".<br />
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I still think it's a mistake to have Bugzilla, wiki, mailing lists on<br />
the front page. Garage doesn't mean anything to someone who's not<br />
already a community member. I'm not sure that "Documentation" makes<br />
sense as a front page link, because you have 3 types of documentation:<br />
user documentation, developer tutorials and guides, and developer<br />
reference documentation. I think it's more important to filter people<br />
through based on whether they're developers or users, to direct them to<br />
sites where we direct people to targeted mailing lists, forums and other<br />
resources.<br />
<br />
> This is probably the "simplest" design ever -- meaning in look/feel, not<br />
> necessarily execution. ;) In my opinion, it even feels<br />
> simila-but-different to the current maemo.org site -- which can be a<br />
> good thing for the transition. In any case, I think it shows dynamic<br />
> content in a fairly organized and intuitive manner this time.<br />
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There are elements of this design I really like - I do think it's<br />
promising, but I think we need to have the "solve a problem",<br />
"developer", "downloads", "news" "get involved" prominent on the home<br />
page. On the new design, Downloads and News are really well represented,<br />
and we've dropped the links for solving problems and getting involved to<br />
some extent. And "Development" has been reduced to one small link in the<br />
top right.<br />
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I'd really like us to go back to prominent placement of categories like<br />
"problem", "get involved", "developer" - perhaps with big graphical<br />
buttons like Tim proposed in his V1.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Dave.<br />
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-- <br />
maemo.org docsmaster<br />
Email: dneary@maemo.org<br />
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