Simplifying the home page introductions
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| Simplifying the home page introductions | Quentin Pradet | 15 Feb 14:16 |
| Simplifying the home page introductions | Alexandre Prokoudine | 15 Feb 17:43 |
| Simplifying the home page introductions | Quentin Pradet | 15 Feb 21:23 |
| Simplifying the home page introductions | Quentin Pradet | 17 Feb 19:19 |
| Simplifying the home page introductions | Pat David | 17 Feb 19:34 |
| Simplifying the home page introductions | Quentin Pradet | 09 Mar 15:21 |
Simplifying the home page introductions
Hello,
The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is ...').
I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's confusing
and 2/ Happy talk must
die.
I'd be happy to submit a patch.
What do you think?
Thanks, Quentin
Simplifying the home page introductions
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Hello,
The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is ...'). I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's confusing and 2/ Happy talk must
die.
I'd be happy to submit a patch.What do you think?
Submit a patch :)
Alexandre
Simplifying the home page introductions
Sure, here we are: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724440
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Hello,
The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is
...').
I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's
confusing
and 2/ Happy talk must
die.
I'd be happy to submit a patch.What do you think?
Submit a patch :)
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Simplifying the home page introductions
I received some feedback from schumaml on IRC : "many people already mistake all sorts of other sites as "official". removing this text is not going to help with that". I had not thought about it, and even though most people don't read such content, it's a real issue.
Is the new version at http://gimp.pradet.me/ better? I added the official part, the text is bigger. It's possible to emphasize on the 'official' word too. I do think it's important to simplify the text (it did confuse me!), but maybe it's not worth it to your eyes: I will work on other things if this is the case.
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Sure, here we are: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724440
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Hello,
The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is
...').
I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's
confusing
and 2/ Happy talk must
die.
I'd be happy to submit a patch.What do you think?
Submit a patch :)
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Simplifying the home page introductions
Just my thought, but I would consider a single line of text above the intro paragraph with something like "The Official GIMP Web Site", in a larger font-size (1.5em roughly?) It could be styled the same as the following para (class="intropara"), just apply a local style with a larger font size, and possibly emphasis on "official"?
That way, just below the splash image there is a very prominent line stating this is the official website, followed directly by an introduction.
--
pat david
http://blog.patdavid.net
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
I received some feedback from schumaml on IRC : "many people already mistake all sorts of other sites as "official". removing this text is not going to help with that". I had not thought about it, and even though most people don't read such content, it's a real issue.
Is the new version at http://gimp.pradet.me/ better? I added the official part, the text is bigger. It's possible to emphasize on the 'official' word too. I do think it's important to simplify the text (it did confuse me!), but maybe it's not worth it to your eyes: I will work on other things if this is the case.
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Sure, here we are: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724440
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Hello,
The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is
...').
I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's
confusing
and 2/ Happy talk must
die.
I'd be happy to submit a patch.
What do you think?
Submit a patch :)
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Simplifying the home page introductions
Hello Pat,
Thanks for your suggestion. I implemented it, but I don't know how to make it look good. http://gimp.pradet.me/patdavidsuggestion/
I would be happy to get more feedback.
Quentin
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Pat David wrote:
Just my thought, but I would consider a single line of text above the intro paragraph with something like "The Official GIMP Web Site", in a larger font-size (1.5em roughly?) It could be styled the same as the following para (class="intropara"), just apply a local style with a larger font size, and possibly emphasis on "official"?
That way, just below the splash image there is a very prominent line stating this is the official website, followed directly by an introduction.
-- pat david
http://blog.patdavid.netOn Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Quentin Pradet
wrote:
I received some feedback from schumaml on IRC : "many people already mistake all sorts of other sites as "official". removing this text is not going to help with that". I had not thought about it, and even though
most
people don't read such content, it's a real issue.
Is the new version at http://gimp.pradet.me/ better? I added the
official
part, the text is bigger. It's possible to emphasize on the 'official'
word
too. I do think it's important to simplify the text (it did confuse me!), but maybe it's not worth it to your eyes: I will work on other things if this is the case.
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Sure, here we are: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724440
Quentin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
Hello,
The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is
...').
I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's
confusing
and 2/ Happy talk must
die<http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/happy-talk-must-die.html
.
I'd be happy to submit a patch.
What do you think?
Submit a patch :)
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