kde.org re-design usability issues

[Neil Stevens]

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On Sunday October 20, 2002 09:07, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On Sunday 20 October 2002 18:00, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Well-established standard?  Come on, blindly following an alleged
> > crowd is not the same as a standard.
> >
> > The point of having the important text on the left is to make it seen
> > first.  Unless you accept that the actual text of the page is most
> > important, I don't see why you think the pages are even needed?
> >
> > Surrounding the important text of the page with junk on the top,
> > bottom, and left hides the important stuff.
>
> Hmm, than you go to a webpage just to read the front page but not
> interested first in what at all is on that page ?
> My first interest on each page is normal "what to hell is there", and
> this means looking at the sitemap/navbar first. Fine, the front page has
> news/announcements/some "blabla", but in the end, each user visiting the
> page the second time will be more interested in the real content and not
> the frontpage.

That's fine for the top page, but we're not talking about front page there.  
He suggested that multiple link areas be used for the top page, as did I.  
This is a matter of how to organize the *rest* of the pages, to maximize 
their usability and efficiency to the users.

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Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your
Friends'." - Benjamin Franklin
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