Hi Nik, *, Am Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2011, 04:31:34 schrieb Nik: (...) > - Andreas: attention is a funny thing in Graphic Design, when trying to > balance "size" with "empty-space" you have to remember that there is an > inverse-bell-curve, where too much or too little empty space /attracts/ > attention and a "balanced" compromise makes people feel comfortable, but > uninterested. For the logo I think we should go with this "boring" > balance because like you say, the logo isn't the major player on that > page, the Navigation is. But interesting to note in that principle, is > that something SMALL, when surrounded by luxuriant empty space, catches > attention. While I've never formalised that in any discussion on-list so > far, I think that is the method LibO should employ in its branding > language. It should become our mantra. Empty space (not necessarily > /white/, but /negative/) is our friend. >
I played a bit around on my local box and made some changes to the css. I also changed the logo to - hopefully - the original. The search-bar is placed now right to the top-main-navbar. I changed the color of the heading to green. The logo walked up the hill a bit to the top of the site. The height of the top-main- navbar is smaller now. > ... > > Personally, if you don't mind my opinion, I would actually change the > landing page quite a bit. An explanation IS essential, but if I were to > land on an exentsions site, the MOST Important thing I'd like to see is > a big fat search box or categorised index. Maybe some of the best-rated > / most-popular / newest-addition extensions. I would like to see a > prominent "add an extension" and information/interview with Extension > developers. > Hmm. If we want to get such search into the landing page, we had to make the Extension-Center (Plone Software Center) the default page (not tried it out yet) and add some content to it (special fields with some content: our current text; or text with links to longer explanations). > And on a personal note, all of this constant emphasis on donation is > really starting to change my impression of LibO. A LOT! We went from a > philosophy-driven endeavour which emphasised its focus on freedom (both > speech AND expense) which rarely requested money.... to a seemingly > money-hungry enterprise that wants more donations - more donations - > MORE DONATIONS! > > I know donations are our lifeblood, so don't get me wrong, but I think > we should be doing this in a much more elegant way than banner-ads / > home-page-hugging mentions of donations and never-ending mentions of > money. Firefox does quite well by emphasising it's "community of > volunteers" which makes you feel like supporting them, rather than > all-consuming "donate NOW" instructions. Again, just my humble, and > always controversial, opinions and nothing more. That's an issue that should be discussed on the website-list or on Foundation- discuss-list. We need donations to run the services, because they eat up a lot of money (and not-payed time of volunteers: but therefor we need no money). Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
