tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com writes:
Flags & Maps -- both far too complicated. And they're contentious issues just waiting to explode in our faces.
Flags -- which ones to use? What to do for languages spoken in many countries? What to do for countries which speak several languages? World Map -- what about mixed areas? What about the load time for the image? It'll have to be pretty big to show the different areas of Switzerland, no?
What is the *basic, driving* idea behind these suggestions? to make it simple for people to find their language on the portal page.
The simplest thing is still to have the name of each language, in words.
Just what I wanted to say. Let's take us an example from the success of Google in contrast to other search engines.
One search field + button, a wikipedia logo and below the different language wikipedias ("La encyclopedie libre française (5000 articles)", "Die deutsche freie Enzyklopädie (5800 Artikel)" and so on)
People don't like to read too much on a front page. They prefer a simple and fast-loading interface - then they will stay.
greetings, elian