New Website Design

[Valtam]

Out of all of the feedback I receive, a large portion of it regards how busy it looks and how it can be hard to find things.

Hopefully, this is all now resolved. Still a few bits and pieces to tidy up but overall I'm happy with the result.

Let me now what you think.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/

[LL-user]

Hi Jerry & Team,

Congrats, great work!

A few minor things that stood out to me:

As much as I don't mind I could imagine that the very clean landing page might be too clean, maybe perceived as boring? It would be nice to have one or two screenshots integrated.

Also, with the resolution of my screens around half the height is taken up by the headings. The usage of the screen real estate seems out of balance.

The Download page has 11(!) subheadings. Some kind of TOCs or menu would make it more usable.
I don't understand why older versions of the current series are offered (as equal) next to the current latest release? I'd suggest as main download the latest release and a less prominent link to older releases.
The Community Sponsors heading/section is mixed with technical info. As it would not do them justice to put them at the very end of that quite long page I'd suggest to mention them under the download links in the dark blue section which would also clearly separate them from the technical info.

Last but not least, if the Status page also kept the top menu, it would integrate much better with the rest of the website and also would make navigation back to the other categories much easier.

Hope that helps.
Many thanks for all your efforts and commitment over so many years!

[stevef]

Concur with LL-user's points and add my thanks.
Good to see the minimum hardware requirements have crept up a little bit.

Some thoughts regarding the Download page.
Realistically, anyone looking for a currently supported release should be choosing 7.4 or 6.6 (at time of writing) so those need to be there.  Would it be useful/practical to have links to the release notes and caveats/known issues alongside the download options ?

The sections on Release timing, UEFI/Secure boot, previous releases and Roadmap might be more appropriate under the support tab ?

[Valtam]

Thanks folks. Am making a list of suggestions and will review/implement.

[Valtam]

Updated a few pages, it's a work in progress.

[Valtam]

How's it looking now? Keep in mind that not all suggestions are implemented, but many are.

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[stevef]

It looks 'cleaner' subjectively.

Did the feedback of things being hard to find give specific examples of items ? To review that aspect we need to try to understand what people are looking for on the site and to some extent the group tolerance for looking before calling it hard.

It could be my browser settings, but I don't get any 'preview' drop downs when mouse over over the headings.

[Valtam]

There are no drop-down Menu's.
The biggest focus based on the Feedback was people found it hard to get to the actual Download of Linux Lite.

[LL-user]

Definitely improving!

Having three Download (and Donation) buttons on the landing page is a bit much. Especially the duplicates in the top menu. If people didn't find the Download button easily I'd suggest to make the one Download button in the top menu stand out.


Does the download data show that the majority of people downloading old releases are actually choosing the first release of old series? That would be really surprising. Only then it would make sense though, to link to the first release of older series.

Due to the step of first selecting a mirror all ISO links are identical and - after selecting a mirror - will always show the complete list of all releases. It would be more user friendly if the active selection of a release would actually result in showing only the selected release, even with/after the intermediate step of selecting a specific mirror. Not sure how much coding effort that would require though.

In additions to my initial comments about the sub-headings of the "Download" page, I also just noticed that - after a bit of scrolling - the layout is actually confusing, mainly due to the horizontal, coloured line and no extra white space above each heading. Obviously the sections created by these lines are different from the desired sections.


What I mentioned above regarding the "Status" page also applies to the "Mirror" page. Both break the design and navigation. Maybe there is a technical/coding reason for this?