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<H1>[Mageia-marketing] Mageia 2 Web site changes option</H1>
<B>Patricia Fraser</B>
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<I>Mon Apr 9 02:49:43 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>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!
><i> Hi there, (please followup the discussion in mageia-marketing, not in
</I>><i> -artwork or -webteam)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> here's a peak at one possible option for Mageia 2 release Web site
</I>><i> update (not full at once, but for most important pages, and driving
</I>><i> other pages into that direction too).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The rationale behind this update is articulated as such:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> A) the home page (mageia.org/) is targetted at one-time/first
</I>><i> time/casual visitors, with a single, main call to action: download
</I>><i> Mageia. 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.
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