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 Scribus 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

malex 20:36, 10 December 2010 (UTC) We should limit the landing pages to a small set of easy to translate pages that will create a multi-lingual entry point. Nothing dynamic or frequently changing should go there. They must define the categories, which will get expanded upon in the official/user parts of the wiki.

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

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

Structure and content

Homepage

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

Graphical page structure

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...