Website Analysis and Design

This is where the discussion of business vision, scope, and user stories will converge into an outline of the website redesign.

= proposal by a.l.e =


 * multilingual (en, de, fr, nl, es, it, pt, ...); how to manage the workflow?
 * as little content as possible (the real content should be in wiki.scribus.net and docs.scribus.net)

goals of the main page

 * What is Scrbus and what can it do?
 * Download Scribus
 * How to get support
 * How to be part of the community
 * Keep it small: Offer all in the visitor's language and keep it up to date

Targeted users
I have identified five typologies of users which should be targeted by the scribus website:
 * End users coming from the world of free software
 * Alternative graphic artists
 * Companies and public agencies looking for a cheaper solution
 * Potential and current contributors
 * Potential developers

Who are they and what do they want?

 * New users who already have Scribus installed in they computer through the package manager and want to know what they can do
 * Potential users who want to know if Scribus fits their needs before installing
 * There are also those who may have heard about Scribus, may be quite unaccustomed to downloading software, but first want to get a sense of what Scribus is or is for. These people might be encouraged to view some examples of various sorts of Scribus-created projects.

What does Scribus want to show them

 * Overviews. Perhaps using a graphical approach to illustrate some overall concept (we are often dealing with those who are highly graphics-oriented).

Who are they and what do they want?

 * Graphic artists who already use other libre graphics software
 * Graphic artists who are exploring the free software world for "ethical" reasons

Draft screenshot


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Content

 * scribus logo
 * a top navigation
 * about
 * download
 * community
 * development
 * a short description of scribus (300 to 500 chars)
 * a feature list (3 sections with few words and a link)
 * bigger download button with link to the current stable version for the visitor's current system
 * one or more screenshots presented in a fancy way (transparences, irregular form)
 * One highlight (300 to 500 chars)
 * list with max 3 news (not older than 3 months)
 * title + short description + link (+ picture?)
 * a "beginning with scribus" button
 * a keywords cloud (manually defined)
 * bottom link list (more on the administration side...)
 * contact
 * sitemap
 * sponsors
 * a "standard" way to show special promotions (like the lgm pledgie, the new book)
 * if no special promotion show one sponsor randomly picked each time + link to all the sponsors
 * a top navigation bar with some special links

about

 * about scribus (2'000 chars description)
 * team
 * name, nickname, competences, picture
 * how to contact the team
 * scribus association
 * complementary projects
 * fontmatrix
 * littlecms
 * gimp
 * inkscape

download

 * download
 * short introduction to download according to the visitor's current operating system + link to the documentation for more infos.
 * bigger download button with link to the current stable version for the host system
 * stable version
 * for each platform
 * unstable version
 * for each platform
 * development version
 * link to the latest available snapshot for each platform
 * svn link + link to how to compile from svn

comunity

 * community
 * link to documentation
 * why and how report bugs + link to bugs
 * link to ML and to our web irc client
 * eventually user friendly subscribe / unsubscribe form for the mailing list
 * web irc client

sitemap

 * sitemap
 * entries are manually added (not generated)
 * several columns

Ssponsors

 * sponsor
 * list with logo, name, website and a description of what the sponsor is doing for scribus

= todo=
 * find a way to show testimonials...

= examples: =
 * http://www.ginetta.ch/
 * http://mypaint.info/
 * http://www.nathive.org/
 * gimp, inkscape, phatch...