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.

General Notes

• 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)

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

Navigation paths

malex 23:16, 10 December 2010 (CET) As the use of Drupal has been scrapped in favor of static/wiki front site let's determine the path as if were in a wiki.

• en.scribus.net (a.k.a "www" and equal to www) - the home page. xx.s.n are translated sites in supported languages.
• www/wiki - user wiki entry point

How do we want to handle the landing pages? We need a list here:

• /support
• /community
• /download

...

• /end

Users coming from the world of free software

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).

Alternative graphic artists

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

todo

• find a way to show testimonials...