Website links

[blendergirl]

Hi

There are several sub websites in use like extensions, devtalk’, community, …
For a new blender user, it’s not easy to find those on the main blender website
The extensions site is not really linked to from the main page. Many people don’t even know it exists.
Same for rightclickselect

That’s why I want to propose a simple square box with links on blender.org directly below the navigation links on top (it’s the first thing you see when going to the blender main page) like this:

What do you want to do?

Download: link to download page
Install Extension/theme: link to extensions page
Report bug: link to correct page
Request feature: link to correct page (rightclickselect)
Contribute: link to correct page
Fund: link to fund page

(Maybe more links I forgot can be added)

I see people everywhere request features because they don’t know there is a website for.
Example: Blender 4.2 LTS Beta — Developer Blog
You see Pablo needs to show the rightclickselect website

So this clear link ‘box’ on tthe main page will make it easy to know where to go.

BlenderGirl

[xan2622]

Hi.
As much as “websites pages discoverability” is important, I think the navigation bar at the top does its job; so does the footer, at the bottom.
Adding a DIV (a box) with all the links mentioned in OP’s post is not necessary.

That being said, here is what could be done (IMHO):

Install Extension/theme: link to extensions page

• add a link to the Blender Extensions Platform on the Download — blender.org page
  Mock-up:
  
  

Report bug: link to correct page

Request feature: link to correct page (rightclickselect)

• and in the footer:
  – bellow Download: add “Extensions” (obviously pointing to https://extensions.blender.org/)
  – bellow Support: add “Report a bug” (pointing to Making good bug reports - Blender Developer Documentation)
  – bellow Get Involved: add “Feature requests” (pointing to Right-Click-Select)
  Mock-up:
  

  

• On the Get Involved — blender.org page:
  – add a “Feature Requests” DIV block containing a text explaining that feature requests must be posted on Right-Click-Select (and why they should not be posted on Devtalk).

Suggestions also posted on the infrastructure/blender-org issue tracker: Issues - blender-org - Blender Projects

@pablovazquez