Two comments:

1) The logo. The use of the star in the logo is very reminiscent of the Mambo logo. Is this deliberate? In another category of software it wouldn’t matter but, as mambo is a leading competitor to Drupal, it could confuse the products.

2) The footer tag line. The word Drupal is based on ‘Dorp’ not ‘Drop’ and means village. A minor point but these matter.

Kind regards
Ian

On the “Get Started” page, perhaps another couple of options in the “4 Get Support” column would be ‘Commercial Support’ and ‘Community’ (groups.drupal.org) …

Also change the current ‘Get Support’ to ‘Community Support’…

How do I find the Drupal forums???? not accessible from the frontpage.. (Compare with Wordpress http://wordpress.org/support/ )

Also the current “Books” pages are at least two links in from the front page…

There is no “Blog” page, this is very common ever on large commercial web sites… I use these pages to find out whats ‘really’ happening when I follow a developer community.. (compare wordpress which has this on the front-page)

Consider eliminating the words “Search Drupal.org” from the front-page the search is obvious due to the large “Search” button to the right, reorder the space around in the banner area to give back some screen real-estate…

Consider adding a button “New to Drupal” which steps a new user through a “Wizard” of how to asses a CMS..

Note: The getting started page assumes that a new person has already made the leap from a newbie who has no idea what Drupal does or what it can do for them.. (WIIFM)

Don’t refer to “Drupal Core” (item 1 in getting started page), simply call it “Drupal” most normal (non-drupal) people would not know what this means…

The list of NO’s
> No RSS icon on the frontpage
> No report a website bug
> No link to the Drupal Newsletters
> No link to security advices
> No links to email subscriptions
> No sitemap (http://ez.no/sitemap)
> No http://m.drupal.org option

What is importance of “310,721 people in 24 countries speaking 14 different languages” does this illustrate anything? What is its relevance to regular users…

If I was Joe Schmo and I visited the proposed Drupal.org site, I would want to know how it was put together… what modules & versions were used, how the front-page was constructed, what Drupal version the site was etc…

The Donate link is buried 2 links deep, consider a place on the front-page.

Anyway… 1:00am…. I am going to bed… Best of luck..

Russ

Also a nice CI-like look is evolving – the pages are growing together and a beatiful pattern of coherence is starting to shine through. The balance of blue, green and the khaki tone gets ever better.

Though: The starting page has even become worse concerning the task to not overwhelm the user. Even though I like it being different in design from the rest, it is even more confusing to me than before.

But I gotta say I like the general balance of elements. There is a clear top, middle section and bottom. But too much information and choices.

Maybe there is a way you could present e.g. the choices below the search box as some kind of drowdown or javascript widget? This would clear up this section.

Have a look at my wild and messy annotated Screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14250508@N02/3017123564/

- Get started : Love it !
‘2 – Extend Drupal’ sounds like ‘contribute’ (do some work for the community) rather than ‘install add-ons’ to me.

- About : the tabs (’What is drupal’, ‘Easy to install’…) are too easily missed IMO
Not clear where the ‘Features’ and ‘Benefits’ would take me.

- ‘News’ : ‘Filter your search’ in right sidebar sounds like ‘faceted search refinement’ to me, which it isn’t, right ?

- ‘Get involved’ / ‘Community’ pages : there seems to be an overlap / duplicated content. Couldn’t that be merged somehow ? Maybe at least a link from ‘Get involved’ to ‘Community’ ?

- Downloads (’core’, ‘modules’, ‘module example’) : I’m not sure the upper tabs metaphor works here.
2nd level section with highlights, sure, but formatting those like tabs is misleading IMO, because there’s no ‘1 tab = 1 page match’, as is usually the case in drupal sites.

- ‘Core’ : Tags, Maintainers, Page Views, Downloads, Reported installs – do those really apply here ? Even Screenshots, I’m not sure, for drupal itself there’s a whole site section dedicated to ’short presentation’

- ‘Module examples’ : I think the ‘numbers’ (Page Views, Downloads,
Reported installs) could be given a more visually straightforward appearance and location. Too much text here.
‘Join Group’ button is a little prominent; ‘Join group’ and ‘Recent group posts’ sideblocks could probably be merged.
Too much stuff is deported on the sideblock IMO, some of it should reintegrate the main area, for instance as half-width sections under ‘downloads’ (maybe ‘documentation and ‘issue queue’ ? – ‘issue queue’ is too buried IMO)

The flash still doesn’t fly for me. Looks like something I’d use in my shower.