04.08.2020 22:53, TEC wrote:
Please, share your thoughts!
It is just opinion, I am unsure even that all suggestions are consistent
or reachable with reasonable efforts. Since it is you who actually is
doing the work, it is your right to choose which arguments should be
ignored.
On a phone I would expect to see something like
#+begin_quote
Org mode for GNU Emacs
- Keeping notes
- maintaining TODO lists
- planning projects
- authoring documents
with a fast and effective plain-text system
#+end_quote
Sorry, but "An innovative and intuitive plain text markup syntax" means
nothing to me. "Created by Carsten Dominik in 2003" is a sign of mature
and stable enough software without disgusting "since ..." but
contradicts a bit with "innovative".
In a "full" version my suggestion is to minimize amount of text
significantly larger than 1em. 4em is excessively huge font for normal
monitor. I am in doubt it is feasible to require readable but not
oversized font on mobile devices, 1366x768px laptops, and 4k monitors
simultaneously.
On the other hand, I hope, donate links work but in new design thy are
not contrast and eye catching enough despite their colors.
In my opinion on a laptop/desktop screen the banner should not occupy so
much vertical space. I like the idea of adaptive one or two column
layout depending of screen width that you have shown in another message.
I see 3 category of users requiring content different to some extent but
should be easily recognizable:
- Newcomers need to recognize if org-mode is able to do what are they
looking for. So features should be presented for them, they should
notice links to docs and an instruction how to try it
- "Help desk stuff" in a broad sense who are not aware of org-mode but
have to help some person when local org-mode guru is not available. They
need to quickly recognize what is org-mode is at all, so they may look
for general descriptions, docs, specific discussion groups. Unsure but
even "Download" instead "Install" might be more noticeable.
- Experienced users are more or less familiar with the site, they may
look for project news, hacks, how to debug particular issue or to submit
a patch. They should be able to find info on not so often used feature
or to find specific place in docs to send a link to a friend.
Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with content of the site to
recommend "hot" links to the main page.
Priority of content is different for mobile and laptop/desktop visitors
but the latter should see content, not just banner and void on the home
page. There is room for improvement of current home page, but it is more
informative than the new design demo.
Are you saying that you find the current mention of Emacs in the
instillation page works well?
I do not remember how I realized that org-mode is a part of .deb package
when I decided to try org-mode for the first time. I tend to believe
that is not immediately clear that first paragraph could be just an
alternative to second one. Maybe it should be emphasizing with headers:
"Use org-mode bundled with Emacs" vs. "Install latest stable org-mode
package from ELPA".
Please, fix a typo. Should be "Installation".
Even better - having two or three different demo files based on the use
case of
the new user - e.g. programmer, author, organisation - or something like
that.
It would be great but it requires more work.
Minor remarks:
- Should not be logo + "Org mode" in the navigation bar a link similar
to "Home"?
- I am afraid that without clear sign that demo page is an experiment,
results in search engines could be distorted. Red block with text like
"See official site https://orgmode.org"; and robots.txt file could help
to avoid confusion of people and crawlers.
