Re: Cutting down the amount of text on the gnome.org

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:25 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
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> > On 8/12/05, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > <quote who="Andreas Nilsson">
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Ok, something like this is what I had in mind.
> > > > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/gnomeorgfront-prop.png
> > > > (some extra stuff on in the top of that one, but ignore this for now as
> > > > I won't do anything about it right now)
> > > >        
> > > Alright - let's chat about this more some time, I think we can be quite a
> > > bit bolder than this, if we're going to make a change at all. :-)
> > >
> > > - Jeff
> > >      
> > The current front page and the new mockup doesn't really answer the
> > question " How do I get it?"
> >
> > To that end, that paragraph in the upper corner needs to point a page
> > about getting it. Renovating the Footware page and moving it to better
> > URL would be a good start.
> >    
>
> In general, I don't think "how can I get it" is the first question
> we want to answer. At least, unless the way we answer is to point
> people to a page about all the operating systems that are using
> GNOME as their desktop.
>
> People who have Linux on their system, but not GNOME, and are 
> technically capable of installing GNOME themselves are just a tiny
> fraction of our users.
>
> GNOME is not Firefox, it's not the GIMP, etc.
>
> Doing some referer analysis on www.gnome.org might be interesting,
> but things I think people might be interested in are things like:
>
> - What is GNOME?
> - Why is GNOME cool?
> - I'm using GNOME, I want to get add-on software
> - I'm using GNOME, how do I get involved
>
> As rough classification, people coming into www.gnome.org will fall
> into two categories:
>
> A) People who read about GNOME or heard about GNOME and want
>    to find out what it is
> B) People already using GNOME who want to use it as a "portal"
>  
> Regards,
> 						Owen
>
>  
This is something we came up with on marketing-list for a poster we're 
working on.
Maybe some parts of it could be reused for the front page, mostly the 
second part. I can see the " You can choose from a wide variety of GNOME 
software vendors to get the support and features that suit your needs. 
"  be used together with a link to the footware site for example.

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