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[SatanR1]

So, it's finally here. The site we have been waiting for is now live. Your views and suggestions are welcomed below on this thread.

Please note, the forum and a Mobile version of the website will be coming soon.

Thanks again to Stole Lazarevski of IWM Network for his design!

Thanks!

[4FukSake]

Not the one i picked, but it does look sweeeeet! Great job!!!!

[threepineapples]

I might just be blind...but I can't see a link to the wiki anymore...

[moonwalker]

threepineapples, on 19 February 2011 - 11:59 PM, said:

I might just be blind...but I can't see a link to the wiki anymore...

It's in "Community" section.

BTW, in Google Chrome on Debian website comes up in mobile view by default. If that could be fixed it would be great.

[threepineapples]

moonwalker, on 20 February 2011 - 12:59 AM, said:

It's in "Community" section.

Great thanks! I still think it would be better having it more visible. The only way to get to installation instructions from the home page is either to go via the about page, or via the community page.

The supported devices list is great, but I think it would be much more useful if it didn't just take you to the download link, but rather showed you a link to the download, the wiki page for the phone, the forum for that phone.

Whether that be a dedicated page for each phone, or just another menu that shows up when you select the device on the home page would be up to the designer!

But I think it's very important that people can easily find the download + install instructions without having to go hunting for a non-specific wiki link and then go hunting within the wiki to find the device install instructions, and then have to navigate backwards to get through to the community/forum.

[SatanR1]

threepineapples, on 20 February 2011 - 08:52 AM, said:

Great thanks! I still think it would be better having it more visible. The only way to get to installation instructions from the home page is either to go via the about page, or via the community page.

The supported devices list is great, but I think it would be much more useful if it didn't just take you to the download link, but rather showed you a link to the download, the wiki page for the phone, the forum for that phone.

Whether that be a dedicated page for each phone, or just another menu that shows up when you select the device on the home page would be up to the designer!

But I think it's very important that people can easily find the download + install instructions without having to go hunting for a non-specific wiki link and then go hunting within the wiki to find the device install instructions, and then have to navigate backwards to get through to the community/forum.

We are trying to keep the website as simple as possible and not flooding it with a load of menu options.

I kind of like what you are saying about each phone having it's own page though ..... means more work for me, however I think that would be a good idea I'll look into that.

[Bnorus]

SatanR1, on 20 February 2011 - 02:42 PM, said:

I kind of like what you are saying about each phone having it's own page though ..... means more work for me, however I think that would be a good idea I'll look into that.

Yes or we can make a kinda XDA like wiki page for each phone, that will ease your work and will looks awesome. With each phone having its own root/installation/radio list explained in details.

EDIT: Just need to clean out the actual wiki page, and on the Front page list you can instead of the list "Stable, Experimental, Nightly", put a list "Wiki, Stable, Experimental" as I think it is no use to put the nightly download link on the front page, imo nightly are reserved to a very special kind of user (And could be combine with the category Very Very Experimental ^^). That will give all the help needed and choice to every user on front page = Awesome !

Edited by Bnorus, 20 February 2011 - 03:05 PM.

[ERIFNOMI]

Just want to say the new site looks great.  Much improved.  Everything seems to work for me.

[olex]

Like the new design a lot. But a few small issues:

• Forum (an possibly wiki) links shouldn't be hidden in the Community section, they must be available in one click from the front page.
  
• Mobile recognition doesn't work properly. The site displays fine on my PC (Chrome 9.0.597.98, Win7 x64), but also displays in desktop mode on my Desire (original 2.2 firmware).

Fix those and it's perfect.

[SatanR1]

olex, on 20 February 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

Like the new design a lot. But a few small issues:

• Forum (an possibly wiki) links shouldn't be hidden in the Community section, they must be available in one click from the front page.
• Mobile recognition doesn't work properly. The site displays fine on my PC (Chrome 9.0.597.98, Win7 x64), but also displays in desktop mode on my Desire (original 2.2 firmware).

Fix those and it's perfect.

I've turned the mobile version off completely for now until we redesign it.

Most websites offer the wiki / forum links on a community or support section. Keeps the menu more minimalistic.

[olex]

SatanR1, on 20 February 2011 - 09:17 PM, said:

Most websites offer the wiki / forum links on a community or support section. Keeps the menu more minimalistic.

That poses a usability problem, namely the visibility of the forum. New users coming to the site won't see that there is a forum right away, thus missing a important tool they are used to to find answers to many questions. I bet that forum views will drop noticeably if the community links stay as they are.

There is easily enough space in the menu to put in the Forum link near the Blog. Or at least make the Community element a drop-down menu instead of a whole page in itself.

[QRohlf]

Issue: When the "Video Tour" banner thing is clicked on the homepage, it takes you to cyanogenmod's channel, which currently has no public videos posted.

[sd73ta]

"You cant there from here"...  You cant get to the forums from the front page??? maybe I missed it but thats the reason I thought most people come here.

Edit:  I would not have know there were forums here if I were a new user.  I didnt know you could get to the forums until I read the rest of the posts in this thread.

[SatanR1]

QRohlf, on 21 February 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

Issue: When the "Video Tour" banner thing is clicked on the homepage, it takes you to cyanogenmod's channel, which currently has no public videos posted.

I wouldn't call that an issue ?

We have that page for a while, just needs some videos to put there now .... this is in the process!

[RootMe]

I can't find the Gapps for download anymore.
and if you were going for simple you shouldn't have changed the website.

[SatanR1]

RootMe, on 21 February 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

I can't find the Gapps for download anymore.
and if you were going for simple you shouldn't have changed the website.

You can't find the gapps? That's because we have taken down the Forum download section for now as it's killing the speed overall for the website. However, check here : http://tinyurl.com/4gsvrl5

If you think the new website is not simple, please share your feedback

[「gu1dry」]

RootMe, on 21 February 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

I can't find the Gapps for download anymore.

You can easily find the GApps on the wiki....

[bassmadrigal]

Some suggestions...

1. Make the twitter title clickable and point it to the twitter account. As of right now, they wouldn't know what account is making the updates, and then can't follow it if they wanted to.

2. Same thing with the blog. Make the blog title clickable and link to the blog. Yes, the link is up top, but that is a lot to scroll, and the user may not realize it is up there.

3. I agree with Bnorus's EDIT. I think nightlies should be removed from the front page as an option. Most nightly users won't be frequenting the front page for their downloads anyway, and new users shouldn't be trying nightlies to start anyway. You could remove that, and then add a link to the wiki page for that device in place of it.

4. I like the dropdowns for community and about, but the colors seem dark. They almost look like a rollover glitch if you aren't paying attention (and didn't realize that there were dropdowns. Maybe make the border a bit brighter gray, or maybe possibly cyan (not sure how this would look). Also a minor complaint (may be intentional, but I think it looks funny), when you hover over Community or About the rollover is changed to cyan and the text to white. However, when you go into the submenu, the initial text for the parent goes back to the original gray, but the cyan color is still present.

Overall, these are minor nitpicks. The site looks AWESOME! I was half debating making the code changes and submitting them here, because web and css code are the only types I could really submit to this project. I wish I could contribute more with the coding of CM itself, but java is way beyond my abilities right now.

Great job!

[Bnorus]

@brassmadrigal: Thumb up !

@SatanR1: I can't wait to donate as soon as I can from here. You are doing an awesome job and site looks great. Just wanna share my thanks

I will add some:

- Donation box in the footer need a little bit larger width not to crop the "USD)"
- It might be a choice from you to wait until site is 100% proof checked, but when you take an audit on Chrome or put the website in PageSpeed, that doesn't give us a really good score It might worth it to check.
- In the about us page there is some '.' on blank line when you put space, CMS problem? Same the quote box is not closed and there is a '.'
- On the blog page I would put the margin between the twitter feed and the recent comments a bit bigger

Didn't see any other point. And I love your recents change on community page ! Cheers !

[threepineapples]

Bnorus, on 20 February 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:

Yes or we can make a kinda XDA like wiki page for each phone, that will ease your work and will looks awesome. With each phone having its own root/installation/radio list explained in details.

EDIT: Just need to clean out the actual wiki page, and on the Front page list you can instead of the list "Stable, Experimental, Nightly", put a list "Wiki, Stable, Experimental" as I think it is no use to put the nightly download link on the front page, imo nightly are reserved to a very special kind of user (And could be combine with the category Very Very Experimental ^^). That will give all the help needed and choice to every user on front page = Awesome !

Agree that nightly build should be removed from the front page. Could link to the wiki instead, but it doesn't look as pretty! Perhaps link to the wiki for now, and work on developing individual pages for each phone (following the site theme) once everything is up and running?

Also, I think the "view supported devices" on the "get cyanogen" submenu should also link to the wiki (and eventually a dedicated page following the site theme), rather than the download mirror.

Not sure, perhaps just sticking with the wiki is better, even if it doesn't look as nice. Wiki is good if things need changing. I'm not really sure how much content would actually end up on a dedicated phone page, since you can only put on content that won't ever need updating (otherwise you end up with an administrative nightmare).

Maybe just a proper supported devices page (following new site theme) since this is really decided by the cyanogenmod team, rather than a random user in the community (not really wiki material).

Dunno, I'm just thinking out loud here!
Great job so far