I have opened http://docs.fedoraproject.org and I wanted to see an installation guide. I was completely confused, because I have found no documentation except "Welcome" page. I skipped the welcome page text (of course) and look for some menu of documentation files. Nothing, nowhere. I quickly scanned the hyperlinks on the welcome page - nothing that would help me. I was completely confused. I continued to search for anything that would lead me to documentation, and after some time I was forced to read the whole Welcome page to see if there is some hint per chance. Only after that I understood that the inconspicuous grey-ish "Fedora" text label on the left side of the screen is an expandable menu item. I clicked on it and "aaah!" finally found the documentation.
This is a very bad user experience.
See the screenshot how the page looks for me (default.png).
The fix is simple. Communicate clearly that the Fedora item is expandable. At least put a triangle icon to it. Much better would be automatically expanding the documentation for latest Fedora release. See the screenshot (better.png). It if looks this way by default, nobody would have to spend long time looking where the documentation is hidden or even leaving without having found it.
default look
better look
Reassigning to Rudi from the Docs team.
Thanks kparal for this feedback.
The site design is automatically generated by our publishing tool, Publican. I've opened a discussion on the Publican mailing list based on your feedback:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2010-June/msg00111.html
Please feel free to join the list and contribute to the discussion if you think you can give us any more "new visitor" perspective.
Cheers Rudi
The docs group has done strides with their docs.fp.o website. From quickly reviewing the original description I believe this is resolved.