[Mageia-marketing] Mageia 2 Web site changes option

Mon Apr 9 02:49:43 CEST 2012

Hi Romain,
+
+We'd promised to have some text ready for the Council meeting, but I'm
+not quite sure what we need to write for the website - do you have
+anything more that we can look at?
+
+Cheers!
+
+> Hi there, (please followup the discussion in mageia-marketing, not in
+> -artwork or -webteam)
+> 
+> here's a peak at one possible option for Mageia 2 release Web site
+> update (not full at once, but for most important pages, and driving
+> other pages into that direction too).
+> 
+> The rationale behind this update is articulated as such:
+> 
+>  A) the home page (mageia.org/) is targetted at one-time/first
+> time/casual visitors, with a single, main call to action: download
+> Mageia. 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 http://i.imgur.com/7Vqq6.png . 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 http://www.mageia.org/contribute/ 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 http://mageia.org/en/about/ 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 http://www.mageia.org/en/support/ 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.
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