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Cas07
2010-01-17 , 18:03
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I'm sorry but I am going to have to completely disagree with the outcomes of previous arguments, it is not common sense web design. As RevdKathy stated the demographic has changed radically in the last few months and change is needed to keep up.
Ill outline some of the points that i have noticed, most of which can be dealt with easily with a simply page update as i understand more fundamental changes require time.
A case in point about general users is a
post by qgil
explaining that people who like forums, rarely venture away to go exploring for more information, be that news or documentation.
I did some research on the pages you mention and this is what i found:
maemo.org/support
There are two links called Tutorial and FAQ but no other links to Documentation or the main Wiki page.
You are advertising Nokia forum links before any of the sites own links, from my point of view it seems odd as you are taking users away from this site.
Side issue: There is a link to a talk forum that is not this sites official forum.
Edit: Didn't realise it is actually this forum but still confusing to point to an external site main page rather than directly here.
maemo.org/community
The is a link the wiki but it is so understated it too me 5 visits to the page initially to even notice it. Obviously i did notice the wiki recent changes panel but i was expecting to see a prominent main page link.
maemo.org/talk
There is a reference to the wiki in a 'Read First' topic in the N900 forum only, realistically there should be a forum wide topic or some other method.
Make the moderators aware of the wiki and get them to actively promote pages that are applicable.
Further to this encourage the first poster of a topic to update with any useful finding from ensuing discussion.
http://wiki.maemo.org/
This maybe something only i am looking for but the addition of a link to the wiki Categories in the navigation sidebar
The inclusions of breadcrumbs would be a possible help too
Originally Posted by
GeneralAntilles
Most everybody else is landing here through Google searches.
That may be so however my first experience of using this is that in order to find the Wiki rather than simply navigating the site, going back to Google was an easier way to find it, until Firefox kept it in its address bar history. So i can bet that if you ask basic users on this site to find the wiki main page they would struggle. Imho that is bad web design relying on an external search engine for main site links.
I certainly think the work by everyone, especially the developers, involved with maemo is fantastic and I apologise if my reply is curt but I am simply frustrated that there is a lack of clear guidance for end users on such a large, now prominent, site.
N.B. I visited Ubuntu sites from the main page, imagining I was a first time user and their
support page
, i hadn't seen it before, is exactly the inspiration that i would use if i were to create such a page.
Last edited by Cas07; 2010-01-17 at
19:15
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