About Zen Cart

Exploring all the different links, About ZC is in the footer and it leads to the Docs site.

Is this following the best practices for an About page?

Trying to reduce duplication and consolidate all content on the docs site so there's only one source of truth.

swguy:

Trying to reduce duplication and consolidate all content on the docs site so there's only one source of truth.

Agree we should try to limit duplication, but I have too disagree with the placement of the About Us information on the Docs site. About us is part of the 'sales pitch for using ZC' and should be part of this site. The two sites have different purposes.

This site is like the 'showroom', we want to attract new customers and 'sell' them the idea of owning and operating their own online store. We need enough information here to make a good decision.

To me the Docs site is the owner's self-help service manual. A user can find solutions to problems and instructions for doing it themselves, without interacting with the community via the forums.

I agree with kim.

Plus, there actually IS duplication.
When you open the home page, you have a "Learn More" link which takes you to the proper About Us page.
The link in the footer takes you to the Docs, which I think is a great deterrent for any new user...

As a side note (hopefully no need for a new thread) - the Comparison page hasn't been updated from the demo site and has an invalid link that was there as a placeholder: View Demo Store

No update here yet.

I'm working on an idea of the forum ingesting the docs site markdown direct from the docs site github along with maybes some custom css

Will update when I get around to it.