On 12/18/06, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi dev, We discuss on IM last week that we should redesign the website and have something that looks a little more "sexy" and appealing. I have a friend who is Web Designer and interested in making us a website. I have some basic design questions for you to guide him a little before he draws a first sketch. 1°/ What kind of design do we want ? Left side column for navigation links, right side column (much larger) for content is a standard that we could use, what do you think ?
I think that the best sample of what I like to have is : http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKETxSITE So basically, left side for navigation, right side : content. 2°/ What are our colours ? Alex was proposing to use match the colours used
by the Mozilla website, which is a variation of blues. Any thougths ?
Well, even if Mozilla colors are not so bad, I would prefer the Ubuntu colors 3°/ What Navigation do we want to show ? Do we match the old architecture
used by the maven generated website or do we change it ? What kind of sections do we want to have ?
We must discuss that on a wiki page, I guess... The old architecture is pretty old, and does not represent the current state of the project. What is really important is that we have ADS, plus a list of TLP like Triplesec, LdapStudio, etc... Mina is now not any more a part of ADS, and the site should reflect this. We _must_ give a high focus on user's guide, now that they have been incredibly improved by the G-men (G stands for German :), and less on architecture, in my mind. A News section on top of content part is also mandatory (not even sure that the initial content should not just be this 'nexs' section) 4°/ Since we are going to rebuild a website, I think It could be a good time
for designing the logo for ADS. This way, we could integrate these things together. If you're OK with that, I think my friend will be pleased to propose us something, and I could maybe have some proposals from other friends that makes some graphics arts too.
Yeah, let's start a logo contest on cwiki. This is the way to go ! Emmanuel Cheers,
P-A M.
-- Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
