A few days ago, SpreadGNOME has been launched. While it is a good idea to split developer-pages and marketing-pages, as like Mozilla does it with mozilla.org and SpreadFirefox, pages like SpreadGNOME should have the appeal of a marketing-page. There should be funky screenshots, big headings, concise texts – the page should give the visitor the impression of cool people, writing sexy software which is much better than the thing he currently uses. Just ask yourself: is this the impression you get when you visit SpreadGNOME?
Update
There is a new design but this does not look like a »The most important thing you miss in your life is using GNOME«-page, sorry. Putting links to a tech-orientated news-portal, a wiki-page for developers and gnome.org is not that imaginative.
As they are calling for suggestions, they could have them:
- Create some really good-looking images for example similar to central ones, which are displayed on gnome.org
- Make nice screenshots of good-looking GNOME-applications. Focus on usability (yes, show how smart the configuration dialog for epiphany is), localization (GNOME in Arabian, RTL, LTR), features (show integration of Evolution and the calendar-applet for example), helpful applications (tomboy, deskbar-applet)
- Transport the spirit of GNOME
- Make sure, you are achieving your visitors. It is not a page for techies, it is a page for users. They should have the feeling of »the most important thing I miss in my life is using GNOME« Don’t launch until this points are fixed and hurry up to make your blamage forgotten