- June 7, 2007
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Hey,
First I would like to thank the Development-Team for their great work for the software and the updates.
But I have to criticise the status of the homepage
If you click on the headbuttons "Support" or "Contribute" it will open a submenu on the left side of the page. In my opinion this submenu is absolutely unnecessary! It links to "Support" (already reachable via heabutton), "Contribute" (already reachable via heabutton), "MP-manual (Wiki)" (already reachable as "Manual" via heabutton), "Latest Forum Topics" (also reachable by opening the forum) and "Bugtracker" & "WebIRC" (these both are already linked in the content of "Support" and "Contribute"). I hope you understand what I mean. It's only confusing to have a unnecessary submenu if there are not new informations!
The content of "Contribute" is also the out of date... Links of "MediaPortal Changelog" ("You are not authorised to view this resource") , "nUnit testing guide" (invalid forumlink), "Bug reports" (invalid forumlink) are not working.
The content of "Features" should be updated too with new images and maybe more new features that were added in the last time. Just as well as the "Gallery", that contains images of old skins. "Showcase Videos" are good but have to be updated because of the new skin.
The Link "Documentation" in the left menu is unnecessary too, there is already a link ("Manual").
"Recommended HW" contains just two articles (both 2 years old) with recommended hardware. there's definitely
missing a lot. i know the most team member have no time to write about such stuff, but maybe you could add some good user-reviews etc...or the system requirements...
the same with "articles"...all articles are 2-3 years old. only one user review (maybe you should write a request to the users)
The "Plugins + Extensions" area is also a problem in my opinion! I think you should separate Skins and PlugIns/Extensions. There is a lot of stuff that is outdated or has just a minimal description, so you don't really know what it really is. And the overview of the different categories really confusing (there you should use links in the submenu!). And maybe you should have a top ten downloads or top ten rated downloads and not just a "Newest Download" in that categorie
I really like the software MediaPortal and i love the forum. But I think the page needs a clean-up work! The homepage is representing the software and the status of the current page will only deter you from using MediaPortal!
Thanks for your attention and sorry for my english (i know it's horrible :-D)
/edit: the manual is really great! thumbs up
First I would like to thank the Development-Team for their great work for the software and the updates.
But I have to criticise the status of the homepage
If you click on the headbuttons "Support" or "Contribute" it will open a submenu on the left side of the page. In my opinion this submenu is absolutely unnecessary! It links to "Support" (already reachable via heabutton), "Contribute" (already reachable via heabutton), "MP-manual (Wiki)" (already reachable as "Manual" via heabutton), "Latest Forum Topics" (also reachable by opening the forum) and "Bugtracker" & "WebIRC" (these both are already linked in the content of "Support" and "Contribute"). I hope you understand what I mean. It's only confusing to have a unnecessary submenu if there are not new informations!
The content of "Contribute" is also the out of date... Links of "MediaPortal Changelog" ("You are not authorised to view this resource") , "nUnit testing guide" (invalid forumlink), "Bug reports" (invalid forumlink) are not working.
The content of "Features" should be updated too with new images and maybe more new features that were added in the last time. Just as well as the "Gallery", that contains images of old skins. "Showcase Videos" are good but have to be updated because of the new skin.
The Link "Documentation" in the left menu is unnecessary too, there is already a link ("Manual").
"Recommended HW" contains just two articles (both 2 years old) with recommended hardware. there's definitely
missing a lot. i know the most team member have no time to write about such stuff, but maybe you could add some good user-reviews etc...or the system requirements...
the same with "articles"...all articles are 2-3 years old. only one user review (maybe you should write a request to the users)
The "Plugins + Extensions" area is also a problem in my opinion! I think you should separate Skins and PlugIns/Extensions. There is a lot of stuff that is outdated or has just a minimal description, so you don't really know what it really is. And the overview of the different categories really confusing (there you should use links in the submenu!). And maybe you should have a top ten downloads or top ten rated downloads and not just a "Newest Download" in that categorie
I really like the software MediaPortal and i love the forum. But I think the page needs a clean-up work! The homepage is representing the software and the status of the current page will only deter you from using MediaPortal!
Thanks for your attention and sorry for my english (i know it's horrible :-D)
/edit: the manual is really great! thumbs up