On 9/3/11 09:42, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
On 2011-03-08 18:09, Hinerangi Courtenay wrote:
On 8/3/11 17:41, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
One minor issue with the site I ran into: Below the main banner you have four "button-like" things (saying Overview, Features, Gallery and Learning Resources). It is not immediately obvious what these do, and if they are the first things people try on the site (as I did) the site feels dead (as in, not operational). The problem is that the left-most button doesn't appear to do anything and the other buttons "just" switch the main banner (which initially feels like it might have just been coincidentally). I can think of a number of possible (partial) solutions:
- Make the buttons into links (so you don't have to click on another
button to go where you actually want to go)
- Don't make them clickable, just switch when hovering over them.
- Make them look like "tabs" instead of "buttons"
Those are tabs for a content slider, which encompasses the banner image and the buttons/tabs. The idea is that when you click the tabs the entire content of that banner changes to display relevant content, a very popular and common feature on modern websites. This has not yet been finished because I need some help as to what text and buttons to put in there - I'm not such a great copywriter :-). The overview section is meant to show new users particularly, what Inkscape is, what it can do, and lead them to either learn more or download directly. The other tabs will have similar stuff appropriate to their titles and descriptions.
I got that, but the problem is that they don't look like that. They look like ordinary buttons meant for navigation. My recommendation would be to make some minor changes in order to avoid such confusion (I gave a few examples, but I'm sure there are more ways).
I experienced the same initial confusion - as described by Jasper - the first time I visited the new site at http://dev.inkscape.org. Once you have realized what those 'buttons' do, it's ok - but it isn't very obvious at first glance and (IMHO) unexpected from the way those 'buttons' are currently styled (maybe the initial draft [1] which had them spanning the complete banner width would be more obvious?).
~suv