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shotofadds:
Those are all valid points, but I do think the homepage could be a little more informative, e.g. it addresses the basic "what" and "why" questions, but doesn't give any information about "how" (which could potentially be solved with a couple of links to rbUtil and the manual).

The question about recent changes is a valid point. The page which would best answer the "what's changed recently" question (MajorChanges) isn't linked from the homepage, and isn't easy to find unless you happen to know that it's in the wiki. The split between what goes in News and what goes in MajorChanges seems rather arbitrary (eg. iPod 1/2G as a supported target made the News list, but the m:Robe 100 and iAudio M3 did not).

I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't see the point of having the developer information on the front page at all - there's a perfectly good Recent Activity page which gives a much more complete picture.

GodEater:
I'm not even going to get into the "developer stuff on the front page" discussion - I've been involved in it before, and (I agree with you) got shot down. Apparently not having it there presents Rockbox as being some sort of "finished" product which might attract the wrong sort of people.

However, I'll address at least one of your other points : The manual *is* linked on the front page.

We've also had length discussions about having alternative ways to access the "How", and we've always decided that the manual is the way we want people to get to it.

pondlife:
All of this is IMHO...

A what-why-how format for the top would be sensible.

The MajorChanges link should be re-instated to the home page (it was there until quite recently, IIRC).

I'd certainly agree that RBUtil should be more prominent; RBUtil and the manual should be all a user needs to get started.  Add the support channels and you have all of the user requirements covered, I think.

The project news section should be merged into the MajorChanges link - maybe with a rename.

I don't like the Recent Activity page as it is, would much prefer if it was ordered SVN - wiki - mail, but that's probably an opinion thing.  I wouldn't then mind if they were then removed from the frontpage.

pondlife

Llorean:
RBUtil is pretty prominent: If they read the manual, they find it. If we make it any more prominent, they'd find it before the manual, which is not ideal. The current method funnels them from "Front Page -> Manual -> RBUtil" which I think is the ideal order of events. The only thing missing, I think, is an "installation" link in the documentation section that simply leads to a page saying "All installation instructions can be found in the manual, linked to in the bar on the left." People look for "installation" before they look for "manual" often enough just because usually a manual tells how to use something, not always how to install it. Many softwares have a separate install guide.

Zardoz:
I'm not a developer needless to remark (in fact I might be Lloreans nemesis.) I'm more than willing to contribute to a reworking of the manual (I've spotted many grammatical and spelling mistakes, and I think I could be clearer in more basic English.

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