Dear websites members and contributors, I want to share my ideas about a restyling of our download pages and try to collect other opinions and thoughts in order to realize a user-friendlier and nicer download page management. Actually we have also an input from FESCo to make the Cloud Images more visible [1], so, why not remake the pages of the other arches too? Our actual download pages are still remanends from older methods of shipping Fedora. We had 6 or 7 CDs, spins and some netinstall CDs, but now the arches and formats are much more and we are creating confusion. This leads to misunderstandings and we are also not able to promote all the arches the right way. Actually we have 4 download pages on fp.o: get-fedora get-fedora-options get-fedora-all get-prerelease and we have also http://spins.fedoraproject.org ! My thought would be to: 1) Create a drop-down menu on our main page, where we can also add in the next months other important changes (fedoramagazine, features, etc), to help users to find their desired format or spin faster than now. I'm adding a mockup for this here. [2] 2) Drop the get-fedora-all page completely! This doesn't mean I don't want it's content. I'd think more of having no more duplicates (some spins are available on 2 or more pages) and complete our very nice get-fedora-options page with missing informations. Finally I'd like to have all spins on spins.fp.o, which means we have to include our spin page better in our main fedoraproject.org site to have the same effect as now. 3) Use the get-fedora page to promote all the shipping methods The clearest method to do so IMHO would be to drop also the right random banners we have on the sidebar (Desktop, 2nd-arches, Cloud, Spins) and to put them into the get-fedora page. See a mockup here [3], althoough it's not complete (obviously I don't want to have the 2nd-arches banner alone there and will make them nicer when writing the code). The banners should link to the tabs in get-fedora-options or to our spins page and give users a clear idea of what is available. Same for get-pre-release:we can continue to promote it easily on the get-fedora page and we could also advertise it better on our main page (drop down menu). 4) Sidebar: if we want to go ahead with this kind of restyling we can drop a lot of stuff on our sidebar, like the rotating banners and the events. Instead of it why not use something nicer? Badges or social networks for example? Look at this mockup [4], I'd love it. I have created a dedicated branch (web-dl-redesign) to work on and try to have it all running and ready for production within F20 GA Release. Please let me know your thoughts, your ideas and improvements, I'd be also happy if someone wants to help me with this part of work. Kévin (shaiton) will do the background scripting part (thx) to have our variables running the right way also for a completely new download pages management. And thanks to Maria (tatica) for her drop down menu mockup ;) Cheers [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/223 [2] http://paste.opensuse.org/75250426 [3] http://paste.opensuse.org/94023207 [4] http://paste.opensuse.org/98007071 -- Robert Mayr (robyduck) -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
