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

homepage

• scribus logo
• a short description of scribus (not longer than xxx chars, not shorter than xxx chars)
• a feature list (3 sections with 4 features each; each item 3 to 5 words)
• bigger download button with link to the current stable version for the visitor's current system + link to all downloads
• a graphic element containing one or more screenshots presented in a fancy way (transparences, irregular form)
• news list with max three items (not older than 3 months)
  • title + short description + link (+ picture?)
• a top navigation
  • about
  • download
  • community
  • development
• a "beginning with scribus" button
• a "standard" way to show special promotions (like the lgm pledgie)
• bottom link list
  • contact
  • sitemap
  • sponsors
• eventually one sponsor (randomly picked each time)

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

sponsor

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

examples:

• http://www.ginetta.ch/
• http://mypaint.info/