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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Same thing: avoid the long column + short column layout. It wastes space. Instead, break your page into 2-3 equal-sized columns and make them resize fluidly. Also, I would avoid shadows, fancy corners, and other similar stuff: a lot of people are likely to load this page on their tablets connected via GPRS, EDGE, or 3G. A lot of them pay per-MB rates. The above visual elements are pretty useless and just add to the traffic.

Now, as far as content is concerned: I see that you have following content at the page:
1. Two featured applications ("pearls")
2. Menu of important links
3. About Maemo blurb
4. Announcements at the bottom
5. Bad photo of some guy with a number
6. Some inline ads

Of these 6, only #2 and #4 are of any use to a regular maemo.org visitor. The rest is as good as decorations. Furthermore, #4 is at the very bottom and #2 links are named in such a way that only a geek will understand what they mean (Bugzilla, Wiki, Garage).
Oh, come on. You know lots of non-geeks know what "wiki" means. That must be an offsite link.

(But really, what else are you going to call a wiki? I can see how you could call other things by descriptions (bug reporting and tracking system) rather than names, but there's no reasonable sentence that will prove any more enlightening than the term wiki. If they don't know, they still won't know after one sentence.)
 

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