On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 15:47 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> Eh, it looks like the laptop.org home page which has always felt lacking
> to me. Not to say that we don't have too much on our front page, just
> that too little can be just as bad. An interface that's too cluttered
> is hard to navigate but an interface that has too little doesn't give
> you enough clues on how to navigate and worse, no reason to want to
> navigate it.
This is the position that I take. We must not be slavish in our worship
of simplicity to the point of dropping important aspects of the _Fedora_
main website.
My thinking is to look for different ways to present simplicity with
complexity.
* Make use of AJAX and hide/show stuff easily
- by preference, i.e., remember what someone set (cookie)
- by dynamic effect, such as mouseover
* Remember across sessions what people prefer, so you can minimize
clutter
* Give people the option to make stuff invisible? That is, "Never show
me the news feed or link to join, I only ever want to see downloads and
the latest package information feed/security alerts."
* Elegant failure just ends up with a more cluttered page but all
information is available
* Define what the _Fedora_ main page must convey
- people don't like being lead down a long tunnel (the funneling
concept) if they can find what they want on the front page
- for a search portal (google is, fedora ain't), one can be as
minimal as google.com is
- we obviously need to raise to the surface more exposure points
than google
* Make simpled, elegant, and cool tools that let us convey that
information for people in a useful way
* Make it a bit hard to turn off the dynamic parts of the page. People
need to see regularly the vibrancy of our community, on every page
visit.
- It doesn't have to be RSS feeds, but it cold
- It could be a visual representation of how far along translation on
the latest release is going
- It could show a package count + packagers + users cool graph heat
map thingie
* Be willing to try ideas and watch the metrics
- If people click on something, talk about it, post the URL often in
#fedora, embrace it for longer
- If people ignore and hate it, remove it
... stuff like that.
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