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There are others actions, such as: contribute, get older +version(s), learn more about the product, and the community and the +project. But there is no other navigation. It's really a poster-like +page, direct to a main action, with the following main channel for +visitors: + + - home => action 1: get the software + - download => action 1: select your download + - while-downloading => actions: how to use, how to contribute, learn +more about Mageia, what feedback you could provide + +Pushing this page calls for updating the Downloads index page design +as well as the post-download page. + + + B) a dedicated, community home page is for people coming back again +and again (contributors, activ users) with three main incoming +sources: + - start.mageia.org (loaded by Mageia browsers) + - a mageia.org/coop or another keyword. + - home page lower priority action (see bottom nav links "Community") + +Here go: news, calendar, teams, docs, and links to the various +resources/tools on mageia.org in an organized way. + + + C) for past-home page pages, a new top navigation bar, organizing +more of the site and making it more accessible from everywhere; +especially, for easier embedding/deployment/update of it, the navbar +will be available in different fashion: a dynamic Web service will +produce the needed HTML/JS for it, and a JS snippet will allow to +dynamically insert it into all sites (so there's little integration +work). The top navigation bar exact content is still up to debate, but +the very top categories should not exceed 5/6 entries at most. + +A, B and C are not strongly attached to each other, however they are +part of the same proposal. There's a missing download page (and +animation) from A page, but that's a start to go. + +A (home page) is <A HREF="http://i.imgur.com/7Vqq6.png">http://i.imgur.com/7Vqq6.png</A> . It's a bold move for +us. It's heavily inspired from a Firefox page which is a nice example +of a product landing page. From a charter point of view, it reuses the +white/blue gradient from our original logo and site elements. It may +benefit from a very light, thin pattern in the blue background, or not +(not sure). Text copy may need tweaks. + +B (community page) is ... still pending, I'm not satisfied with what I +have so far. We have <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/contribute/">http://www.mageia.org/contribute/</A> but I'm not +sure to change this one right now. Hope to have something to roll out +for review next week. + +C (global nav) is ... pending too. I will roll it out for testing +later this week. What it needs is to refine its structure; currently +planned is: + + * Mageia (links to a special map page of the site) + * About Us: mageia project info/history & mageia.org organization +info, what is under <A HREF="http://mageia.org/en/about/">http://mageia.org/en/about/</A> already + * Downloads: + - Mageia 1 and 2 downloads and features pages, + - updates downloads info and mirrors + - mirrors + - specific software (we used to host a specific mgaonline package for) + * Community: + - news (blogs, planets, other?), calendar + - introduction to contributing + - forums, mailing-lists, IRC + - wiki, bugzilla, other doc resources + - contributors corners + * Support: current <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/en/support/">http://www.mageia.org/en/support/</A> page redispatched: + - users support: community and commercial vendors + - (security) updates info + - product lifecycle + - hardware stuff + * Contribute: necessary? as a short link to the contributors guide + * About You: not available for now, maybe moved somewhere else, but +supported by identity and other mageia.org services, would act as a +portal for every single user, to monitor her own activity/data. + * Search (over mageia.org domain) + +This new nav answer three concerns: + - /platform: allow an easier, consistent deployment of the top nav +updates through all mageia.org; using here a javascript snippet; + - /layout: embed the Mageia logo in the navigation bar, so that it +too brands the page to the project; + - /content: better structure the mageia.org domain into main activities/zones. + +I know that some may worry that some links currently in the top nav +bar won't be available/visible anymore in all mageia.org as a first +level item. It's a matter of context and of the very details of the +implementation and the navigation channels. + +I don't have a B plan about that at this time, but it's not mandatory +to change all things either. So it either works, or it doesn't. + + +Note that (for a future/long term question), separating what is about +the product (Features, Downloads, Support, News) from what is about +the project/community (About Us, Community, part of Support, +Contribute) would help a lot (different life cycles for the sites), +but it needs to have a separate name for each too. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000806.html">[Mageia-marketing] [Mageia-sysadm] Storage space on mageia servers +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000850.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia 2 Web site changes option +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#808">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#808">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#808">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#808">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">More information about the Mageia-marketing +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |