[website-discuss] home page review request

[michelle olson]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for this feedback, my replies in line.

Dan Price wrote:
> On Fri 01 Aug 2008 at 01:14PM, michelle olson wrote:
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>> Please Note: I believe the Sponsored Links area is still 'under 
>> construction', Derek will send mail to website-content about this area 
>>     
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> It also doesn't seem to following the same visual style
> as the other callouts, which would be nice to maintain.
>   

We're reviewing this on website-content this week, any comments welcome, 
there are 5 mockups so far, see 
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-content/2008-August/000081.html

>   
>> soon. Also, I've temporarily hidden the ZFS text, removed the callout 
>> box for sending home page ideas, and changed the country portals callout 
>> box to a drop-down menu. This brings the announcements nearer to the 
>> top, let me know what you think of this approach.
>>     
>
> The country portals box content seems to be styled wrong-- it needs
> margins to match the other callout boxes (like "Image Packaging System")
>   

Thanks, I'll try to fix this.

> For participate-- there was a "pacman" like icon at some point which
> might go nicely instead of the lightbulb.
>
> You can see at least one version of that over ehre:
>         http://stage.opensolaris.org/os/about/start/
>   

Right, this would also go along with Pradhap's suggestion to include 
forums content on this page.

> My issue with the featured ZFS content is simply that it's too big,
> and not focused enough on getting the user to click to learn more.
> Also that the bold visual scheme isn't at all echoed when you go to the
> zfs page it leads to.  I'd suggest that when this rolls out, something
> else besides ZFS should now be featured.
>   

OK, this makes sense. It is more work to do, but that's why we tossed 
this out there, to find out how to start a program that will keep the 
home page fresh. I know Storage community, Docs, IPS and Songbird 
project all have some graphics on their pages, so maybe we consider 
those next, just to try out this 'matching' visual scheme idea for the 
next few tries.

> If you go back to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/-- the opening
> paragraph of the ZFS content is too wordy, but it's a start.  The rest
> could be eliminated... i.e., here's a rouch mockup (see attached)... I
> kind of slightly got the scale wrong, but you can get the idea.
>
>         -dp
>   

Thanks for your time to mockup and feedback, Dan, much appreciated. I 
think the graphic could even be smaller, if we get rid of the tagline 
(per some negative feedback already). We'll certainly go for a smaller 
size  and less text with our next iteration.

-Michelle


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