Re: Does anyone else find the main site confusing?

[Gregory John Casamento]

I agree with this.   This is my point *exactly*.

Later, GJC

--- Christopher Armstrong <address@ishidden.com> wrote:

> I have to agree on this point. I'm sometimes trying to bring up the
> archives for the mailing lists, as I access the web site from a myriad
> of computers (so bookmarking is out of the question). I find it hard to
> locate them, and sometimes I just want so see if there's anything new on
> a thread I written on.
> 
> For example, I click on "Developers" but it's not in there. I click on
> user guides, but not there again. Finally I click on "Get help" and
> there listed, plain and simple. It's just a bit confusing, as most of
> these lists are developer-centric. I liked the old design, where
> everything was listed on the side, as you could click through once to
> where you wanted to go.
> 
> And shouldn't Gorm/ProjectCenter be listed under "Developers"? They're
> the development tools for developers. The news way of locating them is
> error-prone, and we seriously risk losing people's attention who may or
> may not be interested in the gnustep project.
> -- 
> Christopher Armstrong <quineska AT__ gamebox dOT net>
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:04 -0700, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I really have to express this bit of frustration...
> > 
> > If I were a new, potential, user it would be very hard for me to navigate
> the
> > current gnustep.org site.
> > 
> > I would find it very confusing that the "Downloads" section doesn't contain
> the
> > current releases, but the links on the front of the page do (if so
> shouldn't
> > the other link be called "additional downloads").
> > 
> > I am constantly telling people to go the the site to show them GNUstep and
> one
> > of the things which always trips them up is "where can I read about
> > Gorm/ProjectCenter/etc etc."  They always click on the link on the top of
> the
> > screen.   Little do they know that it's the link for each release in the
> "News"
> > section which points the the Gorm/ProjectCenter/etc. page.   This is
> confusing.
> > 
> > Can we please do something about this?   Even *I* get tripped up by this
> > sometimes since it's relatively unintuitive in my opinion.
> > 
> > I believe what we need to have is something like has been done on GAP.  We
> show
> > all of the current releases for all SW on the front page and the link leads
> to
> > a page wich has "Information" "Download" and other links about that app.  I
> > believe that this is cleaner and more intuitive.
> > 
> > Just my opinion as I almost got tripped up *again* today while showing
> someone
> > the site. 
> > 
> > Later, GJC
> > 
> > Gregory John Casamento 
> > -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)
> > ## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.
> > 
> > 
> 
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Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)
## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.