please review mockup (was Re: website mockups, what is fedora?)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:51:11PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, mairin at linuxgrrl.com wrote:
> 
> > Hey, so while the two page-fuls of emails containing philosophical
> > discussions that I've gotten this afternoon are interesting, I've yet to
> > receive any feedback on the mockup I stayed up until past 2 AM on a Friday
> > night to make. I tried to work in the suggestions Toshio gave me here on
> > the list.
> >
> > Please let me know if this mockup is an improvement over the other one and
> > helps.
> >
> 
> First, looks good.  That's a get-fedora page we can all be proud of.  One
> thing I (as someone who knows what I'm looking for) would bring up is I
> don't actually see the word "spins" on there anywhere.  I know at the
> shows and in marketing we specifically use the word spins.  Perhaps the
> "Other Options" header could be called "Other Options and Custom Spins" or
> something similar?
> 
> If this was a design decision and I just missed it, my apologies.

The reason "Spins" doesn't appear here is because it's a Fedora jargon
term.  If you put it there, you also have to define what it means,
which takes up space and distracts from the message you're trying to
get to the viewer, which is that other options are available,
regardless of what they're called in Fedora-land.

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