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Volunteer to support Dash development (improve dashpay.io website)

kot

kot

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Masternode Owner/Operator
Dear Community,
This is another post, where I would like to ask for your help with the improvement to dashpay.org website, to make it even more attractive :).
It would be good, if experienced web-designer/web-developer could volunteer to do the job. Any assistance and advices of the UI experts is also highly appreciated.
There are several tasks, I could propose (feel free to extend the list of tasks):
  1. Review of the website
  2. Layout Improvement suggestions (if necessary)
  3. Information architecture improvement suggestions (if required)
  4. Preparation of the additional content (or improved content)
    • Content identified during the review (point 1)
    • Additionally, I would ask to prepare a separate sub-page for every sub-project (like InstantX, Masternodes, translations, Ambassadors etc) - these sub-pages will help with regular updates and communication (we will provide additional explanations, if necessary)
We will be happy to support you with our experience, tools (Jira, Confluence), advices, clarifications and every necessary help, we can provide during the realization.

Thank you in advance
kot and balu
 
Thanks guys!

coingun - your page might a great start. Would you like to continue with other pages?
 
Idea #1. Simplify "Downloads" page, with "stupid buttons":

IMHO, If we want adoption, It'll be better do make download page (for many reasons - MAIN, "selling point" page) of official site more general-user (not crypto-geek) oriented.

With 3 BIG simple buttons:

WIN-Wallet -> Click here do download
MAC-Wallet -> Click here do download
LINUX-Wallet -> Click here do download

Reason: don't let all these Checking sum, PGP, Verify Signatures, Hash, Github, Source, Keys - to confuse and frighten general users.
Let's don't make them think ("all this Dash stuff is too complicated for me").

And place all these Checking sum, PGP, Verify Signatures, Hash, Github, Source, Keys - to the bottom of page (with disclaimer all these aren't mandatory to start using DASH).

Here is a rough mockup but you get the idea:

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Idea #2. Add "solutions" pages, for different group of users: with targeted and specialized instructions.

1. Dash for Traders. Comparison of exchanges, tools, ROIs, specific, ...
2. Dash for Long-term investors. Master nodes, ROI, Voting, strategy, ...
3. Dash for Privacy. Anonymization, Tor, IPs, mixing, Darksend, advices, ...
4. Dash for Merchants: solutions, scripts, convercions, taxing, ....
5. Dash for Miners. ...
6. And so on.
 
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Idea #3. In promo section - add printable PDFs
It may be A4-3folded brochures like "Dash for beginners", "Dash for Merchants", "How to pay with DASH on our site" and so on...
To help people spread the world (offline also).
 
Devs, will the Android and iPhone wallets be accepted as official and added to the download page?
 
Idea #4 Additional Dash Promo-Site.
(thanks poiuty for cooperation)

Well I think our current dishpay.io is good enough (may be change background images for more suitable and make other design adjustments + and promo-video on main page - but I like it in general - structure and so on…).

Our current most important audience is investors - they need full information in formal serious appearance. Project is very technical complicated - so dishpay.io is not easy too (to better convert visitors into investors) - it is OK.

But. The more project is growing - the more we need not only investors but general users also…
And this type of visitor is absolutely different. They don’t care if coin has long-term perspective, does it have competitive technology and so on…

Most of them just:
1. Visit some site-shop.
2. See there Dash as payment option. - «What the f*ck is Dash?» - click.
3. Go to our site, have a 5-seconds look «What is it? Better than Bitcoin?» «Can I start using it quickly?» «Is it easy enough?»

So to better convert such visitors into users we don’t need to force them study «complicated» dishpay.io - we need simple «landing page - CPA-type of site»

What is landing page? Have a look at http://dogecoin.com - this site oriented on converting visitors into users, not investors. I feel Dash need similar promo-site in addition to dishpay.io
It must be:
1. Small-simple: 1-3 pages, minimum number of links.
2. Attractive-bright: video + big images and short texts + animated + responsive + interactive = FUN!
3. Download-centric-optimised. Main purpose - convert visitors into downloads-installs.
4. Minimum technical information (no! private keys, hashing, mining, masternoding and so on) - so every non-crypto person won't see any new «frightening words».


There are some examples of this concept I like:

http://thevoltapp.com/en/
http://www.spendeeapp.com
https://www.automatic.com
http://playwith.co
http://www.pixate.com
http://www.getsnippit.com
http://get.hike.in
https://kinhr.com
https://evernote.com/work-chat/
https://acorns.com

http://test.mgkub.ru/domovladelec/
http://test.mgkub.ru/women-training/
http://test.mgkub.ru/icg/
 
Here are my suggestions for the website as it stands now. I went ahead and clicked just about EVERY link I could in there.
A lot of my suggestions are to change the target to _blank on links that leave our website. This is because it's never a good idea to send people away from your website without giving them a reasonable option to get back. The attention span people have is not high enough to hit the back button and once they are onto a new website they pretty much wont be coming back to yours unless they need too.

I've listed every link on the website that makes the user leave the actual website into a completely different website, whether it be dashtalk, the wiki, or something else. Many web designers argue about what practice is better. Some people complain that opening a new page without letting the user know is not the right thing to do, hence the reason wordpress gives us this little button to add to links

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Anyways I build basic websites on the side and have a decent portfolio. If anyone needs some help with this or with another site (associated with dash) let me know.

Please note: these are only suggestions based on my personal preference. i don't expect you guys to do it all but at least take into consideration.

The Bold Large Headers are Main Menu Links. The numbered items are sub links. and the sentences with a - in front of them are my actual suggestions.

'ABOUT':
1) 'What is Dash'
- We don't want people leaving the website. Make the target = _blank,
- All other Links work here.

2) 'Team'
-Of course this would be a choice but if possible ask team members only if they are willing for:
-photo, email, twitter/social page, or even dashtalk user name.

3) 'Dash Foundation'
- We don't want people leaving the website. Make the target = _blank

'USE DASH'
1) 'Wallet'
-Three side menu links that lead to wiki take you away from website. Make the target = _blank

2) 'Where to spend'
- We don't want people leaving the website. Make the target = _blank

'DOWNLOAD'
1) 'Mailing List'
-on right and side should be target=_blank

2) 'release notes'
-right above 'terms of use' disclaimer is a dead link.
-Also when fixed Make the target = _blank

CONTACT:
1) the 'Dashtalk' link in the paragraph above the form should be target=_blank

NEWS:
1) Each Section has specific Blog Posts listed. These posts are links to the actual blog posts content. So it shows us a little snippet of the posts, the author, the date, the title. There should be a 'read more' button for each of these. The only way to tell if those are links is to hover them and see if the cursor changes.

SOCIAL BUTTONS AT BOTTOM:
1) should be target=_blank
 
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buster said:
'ABOUT':
1) 'What is Dash'
- We don't want people leaving the website. Make the target = _blank,
- All other Links work here.
Fixed.

2) 'Team'
-Of course this would be a choice but if possible ask team members only if they are willing for:
-photo, email, twitter/social page, or even dashtalk user name.

3) 'Dash Foundation'
- We don't want people leaving the website. Make the target = _blank
Fixed.

'USE DASH'
1) 'Wallet'
-Three side menu links that lead to wiki take you away from website. Make the target = _blank
Fixed.

2) 'Where to spend'
- We don't want people leaving the website. Make the target = _blank
Fixed.

'DOWNLOAD'
1) 'Mailing List'
-on right and side should be target=_blank
Fixed.

2) 'release notes'
-right above 'terms of use' disclaimer is a dead link.
-Also when fixed Make the target = _blank
Fixed.

CONTACT:
1) the 'Dashtalk' link in the paragraph above the form should be target=_blank
Fixed.

NEWS:
1) Each Section has specific Blog Posts listed. These posts are links to the actual blog posts content. So it shows us a little snippet of the posts, the author, the date, the title. There should be a 'read more' button for each of these. The only way to tell if those are links is to hover them and see if the cursor changes.

SOCIAL BUTTONS AT BOTTOM:
1) should be target=_blank
Fixed.
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Took care of most of them. Thanks for the suggestions, buster. :smile:
 
alex-ru said:
Idea #1. Simplify "Downloads" page, with "stupid buttons":

IMHO, If we want adoption, It'll be better do make download page (for many reasons - MAIN, "selling point" page) of official site more general-user (not crypto-geek) oriented.

With 3 BIG simple buttons:

WIN-Wallet -> Click here do download
MAC-Wallet -> Click here do download
LINUX-Wallet -> Click here do download

Reason: don't let all these Checking sum, PGP, Verify Signatures, Hash, Github, Source, Keys - to confuse and frighten general users.
Let's don't make them think ("all this Dash stuff is too complicated for me").

And place all these Checking sum, PGP, Verify Signatures, Hash, Github, Source, Keys - to the bottom of page (with disclaimer all these aren't mandatory to start using DASH).

Here is a rough mockup but you get the idea:

-snip-
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The Downloads page definitely needs a makeover. I'll try to get on it when I have the time.
 
Thanks for all updates. Just FYI - I am on the business trip this week and I have limited access to the forum (therefore will not be very active until Saturday)
 
Moving one post of coingun from the other thread:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/known-issues-and-improvement-ideas.5041/#post-55735
coingun said:
Was just browsing the white paper.

https://www.dashpay.io/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Dash-WhitepaperV1.pdf

In this version Section 2.1 talks in the last paragraph about 45% [footnote]. Going to the bottom of the document and clicking on link 10 is a 404 for me.

https://github.com/dashpay/dash/blob/master/src/Masternode-pos.cpp

I can't find the footnote covering the breakdown of the masternode block payment schedule. Is it just me or are those graphs almost illegible? Even at like 200% zoom I can barely read the Mining reward schedule.
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raze said:
The Downloads page definitely needs a makeover. I'll try to get on it when I have the time.
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Couldn't agree more. 32bit and 64bit might seem silly to us but a lot of people don't know. Then again I hate those download pages that do auto browser detection cause then i'm on my mac wanting to wget somethign for linux and it's serving me the mac link cause of my mac safari browser that i was to copy the link with to wget. #firstworldproblems.
 
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