Project Pages

Motivation: Project pages are outdated and don't look very tempting; finding them from the OOo home page needs too much clicks

Target audience: Users, developers, other contributors, people looking for contact, project descriptions, documentation

Desired content of project pages: Goal: users should have easy access and should be guided to reach their goal fast; contributors should have a comfortable entry For users: FAQs, screen shots, documentation links, road map, links to tutorials/HowTos For contributors: Links to contribution pages; work in progress, "to do" list, "hall of fame" for received contributions additional ideas: links to MLs+forums, feedback and contact forms, links to issue queries, announcements, simplified bug reporting

Ideas for project pages: - start page of the project shouldn't have much content but a clear navigation to the desired content - most important things should be on top of the page so that they are seen without much scrolling - navigation should be consistent across the whole OOo pages - we should track hit counts for all of our pages to get feedback about their usefulness or the lack of it - it doesn't matter where the content is (wiki or not), but it should look consistent

General ideas: - we should have links to OOo relevant blogs somewhere on the home page - the applications images should link to the project pages, the current more marketing related content should become integrated into them - this way the challenge of the application project pages will be to serve the different requirements of users and developers - other projects with a more development or contribution oriented target audience will still be reachable as today; perhaps we can save one click (home page - projects - accepted projects - ...)