Improving the get-fedora page

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 09:45 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we need two pages.  We'll drop people to the initial page
> > they'd
> > typically see (i386, ppc, whatever) basically what it is now.  Then we
> > make a nice ? icon or help icon and stick it all over that page, when
> > people click on it they go to more of a "download wizard".
> >
> > This gives us two benefits.  1) we keep a simple page for people and
> > 2) we
> > get to see how many people end up using the wizard.  If we find that
> > the
> > click through is only 1% that at least tells us something, on the
> > other
> > hand if we find out its 50% we know we need to account for these
> > people
> > all over our site, not just download.
>
> We can ask our UI experts how best to do the ? mark, but overall +1 to
> this approach.  Yet ...
>
> There are three good ways from here:
>
> * Leave page as-is, then ? => link to wizard
> * Make page a wizard, with a link off to "I know what I want"
> * Two-boxes in the middle:  "Help me figure out what I need" ... "I know
> what I want" that link out to appropriate pages
>
> "User Interaction Expert, where are you?!?"
>
> - Karsten

I hope I'm not showing my ignorance here but is there any way for
javascript/java/OSS language to grab this information?  Perhaps we should
focus on a "What is recommended for this machine?" type button.

	-Mike