[kde-promo] Donation page simplification

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the effort. Challenge accepted.
> Disclaimer, I am just after careful reading the newer "Don't make me
> think" book.

Good book!

> The text is still long and boooring, given this is a place when we pay.
>
> My proposal with altered IA:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> == Donate to KDE -- it's easy and fast! ==
>
> (.) (Recommended) Recurring donation: [personal] or [corporate]
>
> ( ) One time donation:  [_30_] € [Donate]
>
>
> * Is this safe? [about KDE e.V.]
> * Why we need your support?
> * Tax deduction
> * Other ways to donate
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The last 4 lines are links.
>
> BTW, reported 8 years ago or so: links are poorly visible, either
> lighten them or underline.

The less text the better. When people come to that page they know why
they came, so make it easy for them to give.

Some links are fine just in case they have the memory-span of a gnat.

Valorie

> On 6 February 2015 at 20:24, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi there, one of the issues we had with the donation page is that it is very
>> complex, Aleix and me have worked in a new version that is much simpler by
>> rewording some text and moving the more corner-case ways to donate to a
>> different page.
>>
>> http://kde.org/community/donations/index2.php
>>
>> This is still not linked from the main page because
>>   * We want your input
>>   * We need to make the radio button to choose between one time and recurring
>> less ugly
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Also if some deisgn/web guru can help us with making the radio buttons be
>> nicer (our idea is to make them more like buttons) it'd be great.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Aleix && Albert
>>
>
> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

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