Jonathan Morgan wrote: > More nitpicking (do what you like with it): > > "Bible Study Software > > We have an abundance of applications, small and large,..." > > If the section is entitled "Bible Study Software", I would expect a > mention of software, rather than talking about applications. > > Also, the "abundance of applications" link takes you to a page that > looks superficially identical to what you have just left (it has the > same section on Bible Study Software at the top with a little text > added, and the same chooser for your particular platform). If you are > going to have a separate page for applications, I think it would be > preferable to list every application (though maybe with the platform > chooser icons at the top still). While this does make an unwieldy > list, it seems to me that is what I have asked for - I have asked to > see the abundance of software, and you haven't shown it to me.
You are correct. > Web writing should aim to be concise and to the point (a thing my > writing very rarely is). Based on this I have redrafted the Bible > Study Software section, which you are welcome to pick to pieces or use > as you like. I would be inclined to think to the average user the > Bible Study Software section is probably more important than the > description of the Sword project, and so should possibly be first > (though I do understand that the Sword project is much closer to > CrossWire's core than the Bible study software around it. > > "We have many different software packages on different platforms to > support you in your Bible studies. Since all these packages can use > the same Bibles, dictionaries, commentaries and other books, you can > try several and see which one you end up liking best. Please use the > icons below to find software for your platform." > > I don't like the words "packages" or "platform" either, but can't > think of a better alternative (software is not pluralisable). I think packages is a Linux word and not used much outside. But I might be wrong. > The differences with rationale are: > * Removed "small and large" since I don't know what it means and don't > consider it important. Accepted > * Removed mention of cross platform applications, since it seems to me > utterly irrelevant when the user is choosing a platform to get > software for anyway. Do not agree. I like running the same application at home and at work (Linux vs Win) I have FF and Thunderbird everywhere. > * I don't think the user cares too much where the library is stored > (though I agree it is preferable to use the same location). Given that I want to encourage people to try out, I thought this is of some relevance. But probably not huge. > * Expanded "module library" (which doesn't have a huge amount of > meaning) to "Bibles, dictionaries, commentaries and other books" > (which IMHO does). I know there are other types of modules, but those > are probably the important ones. Agree I would suggest if you adopt this > that Bibles links to the display of available Bibles (e.g. > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles), > dictionaries to dictionaries, commentaries to commentaries, and other > books to genbooks. easily done. > I think this text would be suitable for the front page. ok > Jon _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
