On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Scott Ritchiescott@open-vote.org wrote:
Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a lot of the actual words trouble me. There's a lot of stuff from the dark ages still lurking around that we don't actually want users to see.
Accordingly, I've been rewriting and deleting a few things and will be sending lostwages patches in, however I'd like to discuss the changes here in case there's any objections.
- Delete the "Link to us" section on the downloads page. No one uses
this graphic and the information is just noise.
- Remove the unmaintained porting status page:
http://www.winehq.org/status/porting - I don't believe this data is useful to anyone, and if it is it should be imported into the wiki so it can actually be updated.
- Remove the "Wine Features" page: http://www.winehq.org/wine_features
- From a user's perspective, the main feature of Wine can be
communicated very simply: run Windows programs. We can do this much more effectively earlier in the website, such as on the About page. More worrisome about the features page, though, is what it doesn't contain - a user seeing a (seemingly) exhaustive list and actually reading it might incorrectly conclude that his particular program or device doesn't work. The features page is also prone to be out of date.
I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may potentially dismiss us as amateurish or too complicated based on our web site.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
Small suggestion from me:
On the index page, change "Information" into "About".
* About is a keyword used in many apps that means: "info about this program" * The icon already tells you it's information. * "Information" is very broad. Most of the site is information.
Remco