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Link from HomePage to Joomla! download poorly done.

Post by EMRhelp » Wed May 16, 2007 9:26 pm

The Download J! 1.0.12 link points to a mess of files.

UGLY.

At a minimum, I'll bet that alot of people download the first file when they really want .12-Stable-Full_Package.zip.
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Re: Link from HomePage to Joomla! download poorly done.

Post by brad » Sat May 19, 2007 9:46 pm

Thanks for your observations. This was already slated for refinement in the near future. Look out for it.. :)
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Re: Link from HomePage to Joomla! download poorly done.

Post by brian » Sat May 19, 2007 10:02 pm

EMRhelp wrote:At a minimum, I'll bet that alot of people download the first file when they really want .12-Stable-Full_Package.zip.


They do and reguarly they have been posting about this for months
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Re: Link from HomePage to Joomla! download poorly done.

Post by brad » Sun May 20, 2007 11:50 pm

Please read my post above Brian.
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Re: Link from HomePage to Joomla! download poorly done.

Post by brian » Sun May 20, 2007 11:53 pm

i did and i appreciate it. i was merely commenting abut newbie downloads nothing else
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