Homepage/ navigation/ download page needs some more guidance

[Marc Weber]

Hi.

I've started a German translation of the website some time again..
I had a lot other stuff to do..
But now I want investigate some time again.

The first time I saw the homepage I felt some kind of lost...
The first thing: I didn't know exactly where I was.. (the [] at the top
aren't that noticable if you keep in mind that the whole side does
change).. (that was my first impression).. Why not use some light
background color additional to the sourrounding [ ] reminding you where
you are exactly? 

If you see this at the top: (both should be centered, can't do this
here):

Home     Introduction     About    [Download]     Documentation     Development 
    Sponsoring  
                   Fink    Cygwin    First use   User help  

you can't notice that Fink/Cygwin/First use/ User help are _sub_ items
because all is equally in font face, color, appearance. It would be much
better making the first line bold/ having a light colored background or
something like this.

My suggestion would look like this (### beeing some light gray +++
beeing whit or some even lighter gray .. ;-) :

 
########################################################################################################
 ### Home ### Introduction ### About ###  [Download] ### Documentation ### 
Development ### Sponsoring ###
 
########################################################################################################
 +++ Fink +++  Cygwin +++ First use  +++ User help 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


When clicking on download you will see the links:

Fink |  Cygwin | First use | User help  

- dowloads GNU/linux:
  debian
  Fedora
  SUSE
  Slackware
  ubunto
  any x86
- other :
  win
  win cygwin
  MacOSX/Fink
  source

The same for developement and old branch.. (you can see here that it's
really much information to read.. much more then you need)

Here I don't know where to look at at the first glance: subheaders (fink
? What is this cygwin? Ah I know.. It's for windows.. (you will miss
native port?) .. 

I don't know how many people are using the old branch (and still want to
download it..) sourceforge is hiding anything but the lastest by
default..

And anyone who wants to download lilypond wants to download this for his
OS, not for a combination (linux and Mac for example)..
So why not introduce 3(+2) short links

_GNU/linux_
_Windows_
_Mac (FINK)_ 
<small>source (warning)</small>
after downloading, read our _"Getting Started Guide"_

There is also our 
_"developement branch"_ <small>(use if you are not satisfied with the features) 
</small> and
our 
_"old branch"_ <small>(use if you want to stick with the old syntax you are
satisfied with the provided features)</small>

Then all you have to read is

linux
windows
Mac
Getting Started (<- The which editor to use issue here)

(source)
developement
old


with links to the GNU/linux download, Windows (native/cygwin) port and
Fink port..  beeing only 4+3 chunks of information and you are informed...

Then you can also add some short information about wether to
use cygwin/ native and what Fink is about on the subpage (does every Mac
user know? I think it's comparabe to that not every Windows user does
know cygwin.. but I don't know many Mac users..)

Then you know immediately where to click on and Windows users won't be
bothered with reading Fedora? Don't know. Ubunto? Heard about in the
radio.. and so on.

The only thing you having seen there are so many distros.. but who cares?
You want to use lilypond.. and if you change os you also have seen that
there are other ports, too.


That was just my humpled opinion. What do you think?

Marc

PS: I will look at the documentation and post my comments, too!

Oh. my tea got cold.. ;-)
Have a nice day