On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:57:46PM +0100, Marc Jeanmougin wrote:
Hi,
I tested the new site (quite exhaustively) and I found a few problems :
-Landing page : about and download buttons, on the image, point to staging.inkscape
-Search page (e.g. http://inkscape.org/en/search/?q=test ): the flag is broken
-About > screenshots : maybe more screenshots would be better (screenshots of some features ?)
-Download > addons : nothing here ?
Someone might hoverover the Download link and not realize you have to click "on" it. This is probably going to be the most widely used bit of the site, so the more foolproof the better.
What if we add menu items 'Linux', 'Windows', and 'Mac', leading to pages specific to each of those platforms. Maybe a 'Source' link as well.
-Community : dead link to planet.inkscape.org maybe add some more sentences -Community > chat now : add in the IRC paragraph that the chatbox above is exactly going to IRC ^^ International and local communities : maybe directly add the wiki links rather than just putting a link to the wiki ?
-Community > Gallery : Cooooooool !
-Learn : the paragraph "In addition there are many great sites online where users post finished projects, tutorials, and questions:" may be better to redirect to the "Community" section, and put the links there
-Learn > tutorials : All inkscape.org/doc/ are dead links (!) -Learn > FAQ : tldr, but should be ok if it is roughly the same as in the old website.
The FAQ's gotten to be kind of a wall of text. Probably would benefit from some heavyhanded editing. A lot of its info probably would be better living in the wiki.
-Learn > videos : why not embed some (or all) of the videos ? -Learn > Books : show the book covers ?
-Contribute > Testing : a few dead links to inkscape.org/wiki and to other sites (most of the links here are dead) -Contribute > Contributor stats : can't we "embed" the list ? Is this section really neccessary ?
The data's easy enough to find from launchpad, you're probably right this additional link probably isn't necessary.
-Develop : not-links ">here<" (x4) -Develop > debugging : Is this page really necessary ? (info on how to use gdb for a crash is already on a page)
Debugging is an important topic, but I could see this living instead in wiki. Something more end-user focused (like a paint-by-numbers gdb guide) could be worth having on the site proper, but might be better somewhere under Contribute.
Bryce