support.adium.im

[Colin Barrett]

Biggest thing that jumps out at me is that one of these is (ignoring the text alignment -- speaking visually) left aligned and the other is center aligned. Personally I think the center aligned style of the Adium Help thing looks better. Only other thing was the margins on the top could be reduced a bit.

It might also be worth it to move hot issues above the fold (possibly even above search).

Overall though, I like it a lot. I think this will be a huge help to users. Thank you, Thijs, for stepping up.

-Colin

On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Thijs Alkemade wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> One important thing which I think has already been pretty much decided upon in the "Trac Spam" thread is that we should separate Support and Development. As I've worked on the in-app help with Robbie, I've been trying to see how to integrate those in the look of the Adium website. This is what I have right now:
> http://xnyhps.nl/~thijs/adium.im/support/pgs/AdiumDocumentation.html
> It's nothing more than a number of sed commands which insert a some extra stylesheets, the header and footer into each page, this to make sure the two are kept in sync.
> 
> A more important page is the index, which should be the first page a user goes to when looking for support. There should be a list of "hot issues", issues which have been reported often recently, and for which we really hope the users notice them before contacting us. There should of course also be links to the forums and IRC (and the mailing list, if we don't decide to nuke it), the online documentation and some search. I think it's best to keep the creation of this list manual, as it should be issues which are important _now_. Basing it on highly-voted or duplicated tickets will just make V/V stay on top forever. :P
> So this is what that looks like:
> http://xnyhps.nl/~thijs/adium.im/support/AdiumHelp.html
> (Many links might not work or be placeholders)
> 
> I really don't consider myself a website designer, so any feedback on design or contents is very welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> Thijs