Re: New Content for fedoraproject.org
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Juan Camilo Prada wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 13:02 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I wrote a proposed workflow in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields/NewGetFedora which you could
> refer to. It's very important that this page follow some guidelines
> like avoiding jargon and asking human-flavored questions.
>
> I really feel that the page should use JavaScript to present only one
> question at a time, hiding and unhiding page elements as needed so the
> user doesn't feel overwhelemed by the process, yet the page feels like
> it's responding very quickly to the user's input.
I have updated the website and now it use some basic javascript to
achieve what you proposed.
Check http://jprada.fedorapeople.org/out/en/get-fedora to see the
workflow in action. Now every step appears right after the previous step
is selected (except for the first one). Notice that the second step
which let the user select the installation media or spins, only shows
options according to the architecture selected in the previous step so
there wont be confusion on which "flavors" are available for each arch.
Probably someone with more experience in jQuery can do better than me to
handle the form as im not used to work with that framework.
Looks nice. Two things (and if this was discussed and decided against
then ignore me). My clickstream to download from get-fedora used to be
one click. Is there any discussions about an expert mode or something
that just "takes me to the mirror list and torrent" ?
Second thing (not a reflection on the site design):
We _REALLY_ need to figure out what we're going to do about spins. We're
on our second or third release where we have spins... Except we don't
really have spins. Exactly what is the problem here? From
infrastructure's side we can now build and host spins so I'm boggled as to
where they are. We prominantly talk about spins but do we know what the
demand to build and download spins?
-Mike