[Bf-webcontent] Status report

[Sparkwood and 21]

Hi Francesco,

It's great. I like it. Here are my thoughts:

*Relevant Call to Action* on each main page? i.e. at the bottom of features
provide a link to download. At the bottom of support, a link to
stackexchange(?), etc...

*Donate*. How do I do that then? You have probably thought about this
already, but you can go two ways: advertise products available in the store
on the front page and do A/B testing to see which are most appropriate, or
have a support us link somewhere that leads to a donation page. I guess the
former comes across as "less needy" and would probably be better.

*Search*. I reckon it'll be difficult to have a search facility that covers
the network, the wiki, the devblog etc, but that'll be useful for me if I
want to find something and have no idea where to look.

*Suzanne*. Where is she? She's a mascot and such a mascot needs to have
their own special easter egg hidden away on the site somewhere.

*Concerning Markup*: did you ever thing about creating shortcodes? so you
can slap in [one-third] [/one-third] for example to help with layout and
[icon-blender] for markup?

Finally, it's not *responsive *on my iPad.

Once the site goes live, are you going to have a link for site feedback or
be analysing page statistics and adjusting the site based on say, 6 months
of feedback?

Think that's it for now. I like the direction it's going in. I feel like I
can send this website to my non-technical artist friends and they won't
freak out.

Also, happy to help with page migration.

Cheers,
Duncan
*Sparkwood and 21**
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Small Design Studio*
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*sparkwoodand21.com | info at sparkwoodand21.com**
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On 14 July 2013 17:45, Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> A staging version of the website is now live on staging.blender.org,
> feel free to check it out and provide feedback (we are aware of most
> of the glitches, responsiveness, broken banners, broken links, broken
> layouts, etc.).
>
>
> What we have:
>
> - the general content mapping plan
> (http://www.blender.org/bf/website_navigation.pdf )
> - a nice page template building/configuration system
> - download page is working
> - home page is working
> - most of the other top level pages have a layout
>
>
> What we need:
>
> - a more effective way to handle the actual markup for a page in the
> TinyMCE (at the moment the system works better in code/text view) -
> Valery Tkachenko started working on this
> - icons (Anderson Mancini started helping out, he will share some of
> his work soon)
> - artwork (will write a separate email about this)
> - page migration support. I got in touch with a few people already and
> gave them access to the website, but not much has happened yet. If you
> want to help out and you did not get access to the website please
> write again, mentioning the area you would like to work on and you'll
> get an account immediately
>
>
> What we don't need:
>
> - a long discussion about redesigning the whole website, start a
> separate thread eventually :)
>
>
> If enough people step up during the week we can bring the website a
> big step forward and preview it at SIGGRAPH, which would be great!
>
>
> Francesco
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