Make it easy for your product to be evaluated
I often evaluate products to determine their fit to the requirements I am trying to address. I do find however that I am often disappointed at how hard it is to find the information I am looking for. I tend to have lists of functional, technical, operational, commercial and financial criteria I am trying to assess against and the first step is to identity a list of Solution Option candidates upon which I will then rapidly do an initial assessment and triage. My ideal is to be able to easily find one or two pages that contain the majority of the information I am looking for. Some sites however make it a very painful process. Having to watch a video or look through piles of documentation is not desirable. http://drupal.org/features is a great example of what is good; this is a simple page that contains lots of useful information, and links to further detail. I was using a major Software vendors site recently and knew they had a product covering what I ...