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Re: [phoenix-dev] FW: [phoenix-epic-dev] new projects page
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To explain...
I'd expect that
(take me to) "the downloads" ~= "all project downloads"
But in reality it's
(take me to) "the downloads" ~= "the platform downloads & EPP bundles"
I guess my question comes from the number of times I've had to answer questions like this one in IRC:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC_FAQ#Where_can_I_get_a_list_of_all_the_Eclipse_projects.3F
http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC_FAQ#Where_can_I_get_project_XYZ.3Fhttp://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC_FAQ#Where_can_I_get_Eclipse.3F
But as you said in your other reply... we serve a diverse community and everyone has a slightly different view of the world, and needs from the
eclipse.org site. I don't think there's a silver bullet to solve everyone's needs.
It used to be in the marketing world you could sell your stuff w/ a single media type (TV, print)... but these days you have to recycle the same marketing plan across tv, print, google, social-networking-sites, text-messages, interstitials-in-web-video-content, ... and the number of places to sell is ever-increasing, with the return from each one ever-shrinking (especially from TV and print).
In the same vein, the Eclipse brand is too many things to an ever-increasing number of people, so maybe your candy-coloured landing page is a better approach than making people hunt for what they want the hard way.
After all,
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/index-quick.php was quite the success (IMHO) so keep up the good work. ;-)
Could the page, in its candy-coloured glory, include suggestive icons too, as your
index-quick.php page does?
Nick
On Jan 3, 2008 8:57 PM, Bjorn Freeman-Benson <
bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nick,
I don't understand your issue here...
Nick Boldt wrote:
The 'take me to the downloads' link is deceptive in that
it's not for all the projects, just the EPPified ones.The download
links on the old /projects/ page, now at [0], do represent all the
projects (well, all the projects with up-to-date Portal data).
The /projects/ "Take me to the downloads" goes to exactly the same link
as the "Downloads" link in the top menu bar of all
eclipse.org pages.
So how is that deceptive?
- Bjorn
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