main points from this blog post:
- demo:
http://outreachy.debian.net/download,http://outreachy.debian.net/download/alt - improving download page design and content
- building a second "advanced" download page
I am tasked with contributing to the debianhugo project which aim is to re-design the old debian pages and make the content better accessible. We've since reached a significant milestone and migrated multiple pages including the start, intro, news and now the download page.
creating "simple" and "advanced" download pages
At first we made the "simple" download page:
- target audience; less experienced users
- only added more common download arhitectures/options i.e amd64-64 bit pc and arm64
- descriptive content for easy user experience; listing positives and negatives of each option, adding download sizes
- interactive download cards with iso, torrent and
debian-cdmirror selections.
"advanced" download page:
- more download architectures and options including testing release streams
- straight to point content
challenges/issues while developing
The mirror selection option while it might help with faster downloads depending on the region is still somewhat a manual proccess on the user end and could come with various complications like the chosen debian-cd mirror not having the latest version of debian.
We're looking into testing if the delivery of the images/ISOs is also possible to be done through the Fastly CDN, this would prevent us to provide manual mirror selection.
Top comments (1)
Perhaps use wizard with radio buttons or html select to ask one question at a time: 1) Do you want a live disk 2) Choose a release 3) Choose a medium 4) Choose a desktop environment. Include a div with a 10 line help text that explains the active question and links to the wiki.