mulix
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 23:50:19 -0700
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote: > > i got annoyed with the general attitude, so i decided to sit down and > design a site. you can see the results at > http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/ me like! clean, simplistic design. great. a nice logo like smackware had on the front page will go a long way, though. > a few notes: > > 1. i contemplated mostly on what should go on the front page. then i > started thinking about usability - who is the target audiance of the > web site? and then i realized that its mostly a set of people that keep > returning to the site, and wish to know what's coming next. so the > front page shows a summary of the comming activities. definitely agree with you here. > 2. regarding the "menu", i just stole part of the "non-design" of LUPG, so > don't mind the 'stolen' images. there are images? :P~~ > 3. regarding the logo (tux-at-home.gif) - i wish to write 'Haifux' along > side tux's shoulder (to the left of tux, from buttom-left to > top-right). i created an image with this text, only that i had to > "write" the word pixel by pixel, and i did a bad job > (http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/tux-at-haifux.gif). smackware, your graphic talents to the rescue, please :) > 4. i didn't know where to put shlomi's perl lectures. i think that since > it wasn't part of the regular lectures, nor part of the welcome-2-linux > series, i should add a new section to the 'menu', stating > 'Lecture-Sets' and in it put a link to the perl lectures series, as > well as any other "External" lecture series we'll have in the future. good idea. > 5. i looked at the pages using netscape (4.7x :P~~~) as well as using lynx > (2.8.1rel.2), and it appears to look ok under both. my screen > resolution is 1024x768, so i tried to also reduce netscape's window's > width to about half the screen's width, and the pages still come up > ok ('menu' being split over 2 lines). looks fine under mozilla 0.9.4, 1024x768. > 6. the links inside the pages DO NOT MOSTLY WORK, since i didn't copy all > the site's contents (what's the use of doing that before i know if this > design will win the contest or lose miserably). err, how do we decide who wins? i suggest dedicating a few minutes to each design at the next meeting, and then a vote. comments? > comments are welcome. not flames. hmmm, let me see, where's that flame thrower i bought at daliat al karmel last weekend.... seriously, some comments (some specific to guy's design, some general): arranging the future lectures with the nearest on the top is a great idea. the past lectures should be arranged the same way (nearest on top). how about a 'who we are' page, for club regulars and not-so-regulars? no purchase necessary for eligibility, just send a picture (nude pictrurs will be sent either to /dev/null, or to ~mulix/blackmail-me-plenty/) and a short paragraph about yourself. the programming projects page should have a 'proposed projects' section, about the MAYBE machine and the 'battach' project. also, a mailto: link for 'suggest a projet' will be nice. the syscalltrack information should point to the official website, http://syscalltrack.sf.net. the 'r2l' page needs some content, not just a dump of tar.gz's. (both to be done once we agree on the final design, no rush now). the links should be arranged in the following order, imho: [Haifux?] [Future Lectures] [Newcommers] [Past Lectures] [Projects] [Mailing Lists] [Location] [Links] -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix http://www.sf.net/projects/syscalltrack -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
