ok, so really excited at installing drupal7, saw some new installer things which made me go "oooh". then after installing, i see the "congrats, now onto your new site" ... and excited, i'm greeted with lots of...text that just blends together and looks rather dull.
i think it would be a huge boon for drupal if each of the four steps could be described with an image (split across four cols) and a brief description underneath. i think it'd be a great visual clue, memorable, a nice welcome to the new drupal site.
i'm not a designer, but i think the steps lend themselves well to visuals anyway.
what do you think?
if you think it sucks, then another criticism would be i think there's too many hyperlinks that look disjointed, so if you're all against the above idea, then i'd like to propose the text as being something like:
Administration (link to somewhere)
Drupal makes life easy for site administrators. The administration section is where you tailor your site to your exact needs, manage your content and users.
Modules (link to admin/build/modules)
Drupal is extendable. Modules allow you to expand Drupal to add extra features for your site, such as (basic examples)
Themes (link to admin/build/themes)
Make your Drupal site look the way you want by using themes. Drupal has a few default themes, and you can find many more at drupal.org/project/themes/. If you can't find one you like, then feel free to design your own.
Content (link to create section?)
Drupal makes it easy to add content for your site. Catagorise it using taxonomy, and manage it in the administration section.
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the text is still trying to 'sell' drupal - with it being so easy to install now with sqlite, people could just as easy uninstall it, and has a consistent title with link and description style.
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