[Evergreen-web-team] Downloads page mockups

[Ben Shum]

I love the mockup for reorganizing the downloads page contents as
well.  I think the only thing I'd be wary of is that we need to find
some better way of explaining OpenSRF and getting folks to download
and install that first beyond just having it as a step in the README
for installation.  Otherwise, the buttons with current/past/testing
releases looks much cleaner to my eyes.  And splitting the staff
clients off from the server code seems logical too.

-- Ben

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net> wrote:
> I like the re-org a lot.
>
> Splitting the content up: unless the demo servers grow a lot I don't know if
> we gain much by splitting those off.  We've had times when we had a lot of
> demo servers but inevitably they've faded into the background.  If we can
> reliably keep just a few up I'd rather keep their information with the
> downloads rather than have people click around more.
>
> Splitting the server and staff client downloads off ... it's more attractive
> and something tells me folks will like that.  If we could make each portals
> for those communities I'll probably gravitate in that direction as well and
> it seems like that's the road you're going down here.  Was that your thought
> Grace?
>
> Personally, I'm also a fan of linking staff clients in a series with the
> current one, I often hear from folks who have trouble finding the slightly
> older staff clients (e.g. 2.4.2 is the current release but they need the
> 2.4.1) and maybe some instructions for identifying which staff client they
> need.  I know that sounds silly to some but by the time you're supporting
> part time IT contractors in rural regions of your consortium... Whether or
> not we did those particular things they are the kind of thing I can see us
> fleshing out with more space.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I used the mockup software that we have here at Equinox for the mockups I
>> did for the download page (attached).  The first mockup is a re-org of what
>> we have now.  I spent a lot of time adding notes and trying to figure out
>> how to make the page less busy.  I also had a hard time figuring out who our
>> audience was on that page.  Is it librarians or developers/admins?  It was
>> really both and I think that leads to page confusion.  The next 3 mockups
>> are my proposal for reorganizing the downloads page by splitting things up.
>>
>> Feedback is appreciated.
>> Cheers!
>> Grace
>>
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