On 05/14/2014 12:20 AM, Tal Daniel wrote: > 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.
Tal -- You can create a localized "brand.mdtext" directly in a subdirectory for your purposes, and this will convert to brand.html for a given directory. I'm not sure if this is what you're trying to do. see, e.g. the structure of http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/zh/ -- or -- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/zh-cn/ > > > 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 >> >> > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." -- Helen Keller --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
