Subject: Re: Interesting comment on the home page
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Reply-To: jd@commandprompt.com
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:28:03 -0700
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On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 19:12 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > WWW Folks,
> >
> > From Bruce's blog:
> >
> > ============
> >
> > I would put a simple description on the most visible part of the page,
> > currently occupied by "PostgreSQL updates released". Ok, that is important,
> > but to a newbie it looks like "hmm... I don't know what PostgreSQL is but I
> > need to upgrade it already?"
> 
> Not sure what can be done about that with the current layout.
> 
> > I would put a link to the latest documentation (and to the Tutorial and
> > Installation sections too) on the homepage. Currently the shortest path to
> > Tutorial is 4 click away. The documentation of the PostgreSQL project is one
> > of it's strongest sides, and it should easier to access.
> 
> 1 click to the documentation index, one to the desired version, and
> one to the tutorial section. It's only a difference of 1, but I don't
> think we can put everything on the front page.

We shouldn't. If anything we should look at things to take off the front
page.

Joshua D. Drake

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