[kde-promo] Donation page simplification

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 7 de febrer de 2015, a les 02:22:11, Valorie Zimmerman va 
escriure:
> 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.

I agree with that, and that's the point of making it simpler, but imho let's 
not go to the extreme just now, we had a very verbose page, and we've reduced 
it, let's give it some time to settle and then maybe do another shrink-ization 
of it, removing all the content/text at once may be too much.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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