From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Rob Stewart <stewart@sig.com> writes:
My point was that most of it needs to be in one place.
Perhaps I've helped you to see that some of the points you mentioned are useful for the business and technology oriented visitor and others are only of interest to the latter. Thus, some separation is warranted.
No, you haven't. The people I talked to were all tech people; this was the information they wanted. Empirical evidence like that carries a lot of weight with me.
I haven't argued giving such people the information they need! I want to target the *home page* at non-technical people; too much technical information will turn them away. Therefore, I want to keep some of the more technical information off of the home page, and instead rely on a few links to refer technical visitors to it elsewhere on the site. Whether you gather all of the more technical information your "tech people" needed into one or several pages is mostly irrelevant to me--at this point, anyway. So, you could list some business oriented reasons why Boost is valuable to the visitor and end the list with a bullet referring to "technical benefits" that is a link to another page that the interested party can read. You could provide information, of interest to the business type, regarding how Boost fits into their organization and end with a link to information on how Boost fits into the development process. Again, the interested party can read the secondary page for more information. This approach allows the non-technical, business type to get enough information to allow a technical person to further evaluate Boost. It is that person that will want more than the home page offers. Doesn't this approach sound appropriate and beneficial? -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;