Restructuring the website
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:21 pm
Now that the website is easier to manage the next step is improving it. The goal is to make things easier. For example, right now the website menu has twelve (!) different entry points. Finding your way to the download or to the support possibilities should be trivial but currently isn't (people asking for support in blog comments confirm that).
I'll post a few mockups here and would like to have your comments. Here is a first one:
This is how the new home page might look like - the first page a user will see when he comes to the site. Notes:
Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Somebody volunteering to write the text?
I'll post a few mockups here and would like to have your comments. Here is a first one:
This is how the new home page might look like - the first page a user will see when he comes to the site. Notes:
- It is possible to start installation directly from the first page. Most content from en/installation is moved here.
- Nobody looks at system requirements so they can be moved to a separate page.
- en/getting_started (which will need improvements) is becoming the central piece of documentation, linked directly from this first page.
- Screenshots are linked to under the demo video, no other links to the screenshots page should be necessary.
- No link to en/roadmap, it should be better to link it under "contribute" - there it is more likely to be found by the right audience.
- Some text or logo above menu should be necessary to make clear what this website is about. I thought about putting some short slogan like "be in control" there (along with "Adblock Plus" and icon of course).
- There are only four top-level menu entries, these lead to pages explaining users their choices.
- Support section will link to the forum (for questions and bug reports) as well as various end-user documentation resources (especially en/known-issues and en/getting_started). Some text on choosing subscriptions with a link to en/subscriptions is also necessary.
- Community section will link to the forum again and the various blogs (releases/, development-builds/ and blog/).
- Contribute section will be essentially a rewritten version of en/faq_project#contribute with additional links to en/roadmap and en/source. This page will also link to documentation for subscription maintainers and that documentation will in turn link to the particular web tools (en/tools).
- The "About Adblock Plus" link at the bottom of the page will lead to a short description of the project also featuring a very brief (a few sentences) description of the whole Adblock vs. Adblock Plus thing. en/history really needs to go, nobody is interested in that old stuff any more.
Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Somebody volunteering to write the text?