ReactOS Website Frontpage - Text review/rewrite

[Klemens Friedl]

The ReactOS website frontpage content has remained the same for
several months and it has lead to some confused visitors who has asked
a lot questions in the forums.

We need a high quality text for the frontpage which need to be
reviewed by native speekers. The current text is good, but not
brilliant. There is for example no single line where it states that
ReactOS not using the linux kernel. Or the following sentense is not
optimal: "Finally, a FOSS operating system for everyone!". End-User
does not need to know what "FOSS" is nor any other technical slang.
This are just a few example which shows some downsides of the current
frontpage content.

I am talking about the following page:
http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html

... to be exactly, the main part, starting with "ReactOS Project" and
ending with the "W3C" icons.

Please take some time and review the text and post your suggestions
here (ReactOS Mailing List).

The text does not have to have the same length or same
structure/layout. It would be great to have a longer text splitted up
into several sub-topics suitable for a website frontpage.

Visit other website's and compare the content.

To sum up, we need a lot of volunteers (with good english language and
grammar knowledge) who want to help ito improve the ReactOS website.
Even if you are not a native speaker and/or not good in english, you
are welcome to post your suggestions/ideas/etc.

I hope this email will get a lot of response and I am looking forward
to an efficient conversation.


Klemens Friedl
ReactOS Dev & Website Admin
http://www.reactos.org

[Ged Murphy]

Klemens Friedl wrote:
>   We need a high quality text for the frontpage which
> need to be
>  reviewed by native speekers. The current text is good, but not
>  brilliant. 
I have been thinking the same thing for a while now too. The current 
info doesn't read very well.
I'm busy this week, but would be able to help next week.
Perhaps Alex could assist here too, as he as pretty clear and concise 
writing skills.

Ged.

[Klemens Friedl]

>  How do you plan to translate the 5 green buttons on the
> main page of 
the support >database (two of them appearing on the homepage)?
>  Do you plan to make an image-set for each language, or
> will they be 
replaced by >standard plain text links in the future?

I will create buttons with text overlay, so that it can be changed
according to the users language in near future. The same thing applies
for the "Download ReactOS" banner.


>   I'm busy this week, but would be able to help next
> week.
>  Perhaps Alex could assist here too, as he as pretty clear and concise
>  writing skills. 
Would be nice if some more will be able post/costribute new/improved
content or just take part in the discussion.