[ckan-dev] download link on ckan.org

Mon May 21 08:54:59 UTC 2012

I like the download link in the header, my only reservation is that the
header now looks a bit cramped.. How would people feel about removing "open
source" from the strapline?

On 21 May 2012 09:36, Irina Bolychevsky <irina.bolychevsky at okfn.org> wrote:

> James is right, we need direct download links. The ckan site will be
> reshuffled in future, for now the main menu link Rufus has added should be
> okay, if people are happy with this? We just need to make sure any other
> download links (e.g. on pricing page) point there instead of the docs page.
>
>
> On 21 May 2012 09:20, Sam Smith <sam.smith at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> In the original design there was a download link where the brochure link
>> now is. Ira requested this to be removed, I'm sure she had her reason, so
>> there may be some further discussion to be had here..
>>
>>
>> On 20 May 2012 16:41, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Really good point James. I've just updated the site and there is now a
>>> download link in the main menu.
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>> On 20 May 2012 16:16, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Perhaps you could make the download a little easier?
>>> >
>>> > 1. go to google, type in CKAN
>>> > 2. get ckan.org
>>> > 3. scan page for ages to find download link
>>> > 4. try pricing ???
>>> > 5. aha, download link!
>>> > 6. click download link, get a documentation link
>>> > 7. click 'administration ...'
>>> > 8. click 'package installation'
>>> > 9. scroll past pages of stuff on EC2/virtualbox
>>> > 10. find apt server
>>> > 11. no direct link to deb, so have to manually go through repository
>>> > 12. eventually find deb
>>> >
>>> > I would think it is not unusual to have a download link prominent on
>>> > the homepage, which gives you a deb or a tgz.
>>> >
>>> > thanks,
>>> > James
>>> >
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