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This is something Mark noticed when he needed to sign up for the web group. It's not said on that page anywhere! Perhaps not needed?
This is something Mark noticed when he needed to sign up for the web group. It's not said on that page anywhere! Perhaps not needed?
* I don't understand -- there's a box right above the red comment that says you don't need to apply for the 'web' FAS group right away.  Was Mark making the point that this box says something that's not true? Or did he not see it? --[[User:Pfrields|stickster]] 11:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

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Getting from fp.o to a download

Objective: Make it as easy as possible for a new Fedora user (who may not be familiar with Linux or even operating systems, but knows that he or she wants to "download Fedora" for whatever reason) to get from http://fedoraproject.org to having the appropriate file downloaded on his/her computer.

What's hard about it now

What other distros do

Mark and Max looked at what other distributions look for this. Assumptions and results below.

Assumptions

  • On the main sites of the distributions below we only looked at how easy it was to get to the download page
  • and how good (or bad) does that look compared to fedora
  • and how obvious a link to the download page was
  • The idea was: how would new users, any new users experience the road to the fedora download page
    • that includes complete pc n00bs
    • and highly advanced pc users

Fedora

On the fedora main page: no clear direct place to download it. Even better not a single "download" on the page. At first sight not obvious at all where you need to click. If you click on the big fedora "banner" you are linked to the tour page. Every single link outside the menu brings you to some place else then the download place! The only places where you can click to download it is: the small banner on the top left with the lion in it or the relatively tiny "Get Fedora" link in the menu. This is not obvious and requires the user to just look around first. Might be a good marketing trick but to me personally it's just annoying.

OpenSuse

"Get It".. and then? then you get a range of radio buttons. Ah no, i have to make choices! Avoid that at default and provide an advanced option with those choices.

Mandriva

At first sight not clear where the download button is (http://www2.mandriva.com/) but when you click that (top center) then you get a very fancy looking download page. It looks clean and to the point. We should have something like this or better.

Ubuntu

You can't miss the download there! it's right in the header and not something you miss. We both saw this as a very clear and fast way to download it but is it nice? We didn't think so.

Mockups

This section is for mockups of designs that would make the objective better.

Get Fedora

Getfedora.png

This is a mockup of the Get Fedora page. This is just to show how it could be done. The colors are way out of the fedora range but it does show the simplicity for new users.

Main fedora page

Homepage.png

This is a mockup of the FedoraProject.org homepage. This is just to show how it could be done. The colors are way out of the fedora range but it does show the simplicity for new users.

Signing up for the web group

One more thing that can be improved.png

This is something Mark noticed when he needed to sign up for the web group. It's not said on that page anywhere! Perhaps not needed?

  • I don't understand -- there's a box right above the red comment that says you don't need to apply for the 'web' FAS group right away. Was Mark making the point that this box says something that's not true? Or did he not see it? --stickster 11:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)