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* find a way to show testimonials...
* find a way to show testimonials...
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* http://mypaint.info/
* http://www.nathive.org/
* gimp, inkscape, phatch...

Revision as of 20:45, 10 December 2010


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).

Ideal paths trough the website

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


What does Scribus want to show them

Ideal paths trough the website

Companies and public agencies looking for a cheaper solution

Who are they and what do they want?

What does Scribus want to show them

Ideal paths trough the website

Potential and current contributors

Who are they and what do they want?

What does Scribus want to show them

Ideal paths trough the website

Potential developers

Who are they and what do they want?

What does Scribus want to show them

Ideal paths trough the website

Structure and content

Homepage

Draft screenshot

Website proposal ale.png

Media:Website_proposal_ale.svg

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

Website proposal ale description.png

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

development

contact

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...