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Curtis Napier wrote: |
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> This has been cross posted to gentoo-dev and www-redesign. |
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> http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org |
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> After receiving a ton of very useful feedback from the developer |
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> community I have updated the redesign. It should now be closer to 100% |
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> accessible and it should (hopefully) render perfectly in all browsers |
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> including text only browsers. It now passes XHTML and CSS validation |
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> tests. |
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The doctype is currently HTML 4.01 Transitional and manually overriding |
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to XHTML doesn't validate.. (Looking at the source shows that it's |
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simple fixes though.) |
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> If you have access to a Macintosh, Windows, *BSD or any other OS or |
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> Browser please test the site and include your OS and the browser |
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> version in your feedback. I haven't received feedback from Konqueror |
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> or Safari so feedback from those browsers would be much appreciated. |
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If you'd like to preview future sites for Mac.. (Try PearPC) |
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> The only major outstanding issue is the contents of the menu in the |
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> grey bar at the top and what should appear in the 5 purple boxes |
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> directly under them. Currently I have that menu listed in order of |
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> what a new Gentoo user would need to access first. If you have a |
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> better idea of what should be included in this menu or think something |
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> important is being left out please send that in your feedback as well. |
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Usability and navigation needs work. Think in terms of end user.. |
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Someone may not land on the home page.. At which point he will have to |
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navigate to where he/she needs to get as quickly as possible. With |
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click-through patterns (If you can get the data) see where people are |
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going and make that most accessible.. Navigation should be fairly site |
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standard and potentially even show a hierarchy of where they are in the |
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site. (ie Home > Solutions > etc) |
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Do we have this data? Is now the time to do a structure change to allow |
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for faster digging? |
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(Not exactly related to the redesign, but is the site content index or |
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in a database at all.. How could we maybe allow for a site/doc search?) |
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I've looked at the preview images for the winning contest.. Is it too |
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late to consider moving the three navigation boxes to the left hand side |
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and or keeping some of the left hand navigation there.. |
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Link color contrast for the top right isn't very clear.. (Doesn't match |
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the preview image.) |
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Why change from the preview image to adding in it's place the four |
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navigation boxes? |
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While we are an open source project there are still two very desirable |
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actions we want users to do.. |
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1) Download and try the software (Rename mirrors and get gentoo to |
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Download and make it very clear where users can download from.) |
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2) Make a donation (this should also be something more than a standard |
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PayPal button, but still discrete and site blended.) |
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Dummy proof and use standard terms for the actions we want users to |
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do.. The perfect example, but more than slightly overkill/hard sell is.. |
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http://uk.real.com/realmusic/ |
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(I do think the preview image you submitted was very close on target, |
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but maybe with a bigger click here or arrow..) |
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Possible to get the CSS page under 8k? |
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btw.. Is there any particular reason the current site pages end in .xml, |
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but are actually just html docs? (Do we plan to use xhtml at least in |
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the future?) |
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Cheers, |
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C. |
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