I'm working on language select dropdown, and suggest it on the staging site. Marcus, I find it impossible to override the templates/brand.html in localized sites. Does anyone know how to do it? If not, I'll publish the dropdown on the english staging site.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 05/13/2014 05:56 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel: > > >>> On 13 May Tal Daniel wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to suggest to replace the "Native Language" link, on >>>> www.openoffice.org menu to a more visible dropbox. >>>> >>>> E.g. Product | Download | ... | "Lanauge: [English ]" >>>> >>>> I believe users are more accustomed to select their language from a >>>> >>> select >>> >>>> box, rather than clicking "native language" (I remember I had a hard >>>> >>> time, >>> >>>> as a beginner OpenOffice site visitor to understand what does this link >>>> mean). >>>> >>>> This would also allow faster move to a translated version of the site, >>>> >>> for >>> >>>> people who prefer to read it in their language. >>>> >>>> + Another suggestion is to move the suggested dropdown box above the >>>> menu >>>> bar, somewhere near the search box. >>>> >>> > +1 > > On Tue, May 13 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> >> Andrea can probably correct me here but long ago we did in fact want to >>> use the drop down menu. The issue, then, if not now, was that the tools >>> available were thought not generally in use by visitors to the site. >>> The usual rule of thumb for making things easier for users is to see what >>> the more popular sites do (that seems to work, of course) and emulate it. >>> >>> >> >> Some examples, to show that a dropdown, or auto redirection ARE common >> practice nowadays: >> >> * Mozilla.com redirects by browser language to >> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/and has a dropdown box on the bottom of >> >> page (that's surprising), just in >> case [they were wrong]. >> * Microsoft.com redirects by IP (country) to >> http://www.microsoft.com/he-il/default.aspx and has a link "Israel - >> Hebrew >> [Earth icon]" on the bottom of the page, just in case [they were wrong]. >> * Adobe.com stays in English, but opens a popup with an offer to be >> redirected to a regional website. >> >> Oh Marcus, Marcus... where are you when I need your skills the most :) >> > > ahm, I'm not here. ;-) > > Honestly, I would like to get the download feature finished first, before > I start another website change as my time for AOO is very limited. > > However, if you have some HTML/JS/CSS skills you could try yourself: > > http://www.openoffice.org/test/ > > Update its content with a current copy of the http://www.openoffice.org/ > index.html page(s) and just start. If something gets broken, then only in > the "test/" area which nobody bothers. > > Marcus > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- טל
