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There are others actions, such as: contribute, get older +</I>><i> version(s), learn more about the product, and the community and the +</I>><i> project. But there is no other navigation. It's really a poster-like +</I>><i> page, direct to a main action, with the following main channel for +</I>><i> visitors: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - home => action 1: get the software +</I>><i> - download => action 1: select your download +</I>><i> - while-downloading => actions: how to use, how to contribute, learn +</I>><i> more about Mageia, what feedback you could provide +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Pushing this page calls for updating the Downloads index page design +</I>><i> as well as the post-download page. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> B) a dedicated, community home page is for people coming back again +</I>><i> and again (contributors, activ users) with three main incoming +</I>><i> sources: +</I>><i> - start.mageia.org (loaded by Mageia browsers) +</I>><i> - a mageia.org/coop or another keyword. +</I>><i> - home page lower priority action (see bottom nav links +</I>><i> "Community") +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Here go: news, calendar, teams, docs, and links to the various +</I>><i> resources/tools on mageia.org in an organized way. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> C) for past-home page pages, a new top navigation bar, organizing +</I>><i> more of the site and making it more accessible from everywhere; +</I>><i> especially, for easier embedding/deployment/update of it, the navbar +</I>><i> will be available in different fashion: a dynamic Web service will +</I>><i> produce the needed HTML/JS for it, and a JS snippet will allow to +</I>><i> dynamically insert it into all sites (so there's little integration +</I>><i> work). The top navigation bar exact content is still up to debate, but +</I>><i> the very top categories should not exceed 5/6 entries at most. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> A, B and C are not strongly attached to each other, however they are +</I>><i> part of the same proposal. There's a missing download page (and +</I>><i> animation) from A page, but that's a start to go. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 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 +</I>><i> us. It's heavily inspired from a Firefox page which is a nice example +</I>><i> of a product landing page. From a charter point of view, it reuses the +</I>><i> white/blue gradient from our original logo and site elements. It may +</I>><i> benefit from a very light, thin pattern in the blue background, or not +</I>><i> (not sure). Text copy may need tweaks. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> B (community page) is ... still pending, I'm not satisfied with what I +</I>><i> have so far. We have <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/contribute/">http://www.mageia.org/contribute/</A> but I'm not +</I>><i> sure to change this one right now. Hope to have something to roll out +</I>><i> for review next week. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> C (global nav) is ... pending too. I will roll it out for testing +</I>><i> later this week. What it needs is to refine its structure; currently +</I>><i> planned is: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> * Mageia (links to a special map page of the site) +</I>><i> * About Us: mageia project info/history & mageia.org organization +</I>><i> info, what is under <A HREF="http://mageia.org/en/about/">http://mageia.org/en/about/</A> already +</I>><i> * Downloads: +</I>><i> - Mageia 1 and 2 downloads and features pages, +</I>><i> - updates downloads info and mirrors +</I>><i> - mirrors +</I>><i> - specific software (we used to host a specific mgaonline package +</I>><i> for) +</I>><i> * Community: +</I>><i> - news (blogs, planets, other?), calendar +</I>><i> - introduction to contributing +</I>><i> - forums, mailing-lists, IRC +</I>><i> - wiki, bugzilla, other doc resources +</I>><i> - contributors corners +</I>><i> * Support: current <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/en/support/">http://www.mageia.org/en/support/</A> page +</I>><i> redispatched: +</I>><i> - users support: community and commercial vendors +</I>><i> - (security) updates info +</I>><i> - product lifecycle +</I>><i> - hardware stuff +</I>><i> * Contribute: necessary? as a short link to the contributors guide +</I>><i> * About You: not available for now, maybe moved somewhere else, but +</I>><i> supported by identity and other mageia.org services, would act as a +</I>><i> portal for every single user, to monitor her own activity/data. +</I>><i> * Search (over mageia.org domain) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This new nav answer three concerns: +</I>><i> - /platform: allow an easier, consistent deployment of the top nav +</I>><i> updates through all mageia.org; using here a javascript snippet; +</I>><i> - /layout: embed the Mageia logo in the navigation bar, so that it +</I>><i> too brands the page to the project; +</I>><i> - /content: better structure the mageia.org domain into main +</I>><i> activities/zones. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I know that some may worry that some links currently in the top nav +</I>><i> bar won't be available/visible anymore in all mageia.org as a first +</I>><i> level item. It's a matter of context and of the very details of the +</I>><i> implementation and the navigation channels. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't have a B plan about that at this time, but it's not mandatory +</I>><i> to change all things either. So it either works, or it doesn't. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Note that (for a future/long term question), separating what is about +</I>><i> the product (Features, Downloads, Support, News) from what is about +</I>><i> the project/community (About Us, Community, part of Support, +</I>><i> Contribute) would help a lot (different life cycles for the sites), +</I>><i> but it needs to have a separate name for each too. +</I>><i> _______________________________________________ +</I>><i> Mageia-marketing mailing list +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">Mageia-marketing at mageia.org</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing</A> +</I> + + +-- +Trish Fraser, VVMZ4 91L2V +-35.67896, 142.66637 +Mon Apr 9 10:48:47 EST 2012 +GNU/Linux 1997-2011 #283226 linuxcounter.net +andromeda up 2 hour(s), 35 min. +kernel 2.6.38.8-desktop-10.mga +-- +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: signature.asc +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 490 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-marketing/attachments/20120409/2d80845d/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000808.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia 2 Web site changes option +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000810.html">[Mageia-marketing] Installer images +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#850">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#850">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#850">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#850">[ 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> |