Łukasz, Any updates on the site design and getting it merged into the sandbox project? Cheers, Eric
2010/11/8 Eric Johnson <[email protected]>: > I think it looks good overall. The colors and graphics make it pop. > > I think the gigantic earth with text at the top is a bit much and it > leaves a little too much white space right under the banner. Maybe a > good architecture diagram would be better there? > > I also think that in general a bigger News section would be better > than a list of recent JIRA tickets that were changed. How many users > want to see a list of JIRAs that have been modified when they visit > the home page? It would make sense to put that on the support page > maybe? I liked the idea from the Apache home page of a ticker that > collected tweets, JIRA changes, etc into one feed for the home page. > > Is the swish on the right hand side intended to be carried over as a > page design element across the whole site or just the front page? If > the whole site, does it constrict text placement to the right 2/3s of > the page? Any basic text placed over the swish will be hard to read. > Would leaving that much space open for the swish look OK? > > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Claus Ibsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/11/8 Łukasz Dywicki <[email protected]>: >>> Hi, >>> Here is updated version with Feather: >>> http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/1676/servicemix47.jpg >>> >>> The feather is close to logo. What do you think? It is ok? >>> >> >> Looks great. >> >> And like the new website layout. >> +1 >> >> >>> Regards, >>> Lukasz >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Łukasz Dywicki [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:25 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: RE: [Discussion] Design update >>> >>> Hi Eric, >>> In next week we going to complete design with suggestions from Gert and >>> Guillaume. After these changes I'll help you to include this in scalate. I >>> assume that we will not have changes in proportions and element positions, >>> so layout will stay same as now. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Lukasz >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Eric Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:15 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Design update >>> >>> I updated the Scalate site to look a little more like the image Lukasz >>> sent around. I'd need to get the logo image and the icons he used in >>> the boxes to get closer. And the color codes for the boxes. >>> >>> I added a search box, code highlighting, and some more font styling as well. >>> >>> I could use some ideas on how to pretty up the search box to look more >>> like the one in the proposal. Also I wanted to get the items on the >>> navigation menu to darken when they are hovered over, but so far my >>> attempts have looked pretty poor. >>> >>> >>> >>> 2010/11/5 Eric Johnson <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> I'll take a look at adding the aggregated feed from apache.org. >>>> >>>> Getting the design elements into the sandbox project should be fairly >>>> smooth. >>>> >>>> On Friday, November 5, 2010, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > FWIW, the new website is backed by the new CMS from infra and has gone >>>> > line yesterday or so ... >>>> > >>>> > 2010/11/5 Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]>: >>>> >> Guillaume, >>>> >> >>>> >> Good point about the Apache feather and link -- we really want to keep >>>> >> that around. And I also hadn't noticed the new aggregated feed on the >>>> >> Apache main website yet, but it looks like something that would be >>>> >> awesome for us as well. >>>> >> >>>> >> Regards, >>>> >> >>>> >> Gert Vanthienen >>>> >> ------------------------ >>>> >> FuseSource >>>> >> Web: http://fusesource.com >>>> >> Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/ >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> 2010/11/5 Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]>: >>>> >>> Though I like the visual effect of the proposal a lot, I wonder about >>>> >>> a missing news section and a missing link + logo to the ASF web site >>>> >>> (even though it's not a requirement, I think it's a good thing to add >>>> >>> the feather logo somewhere). >>>> >>> Also note that the ASF web site (http://apache.org/) now has an >>>> >>> activity widget which merges twitter, jira and svn commits. Maybe >>>> >>> that's something we'd want to use instead of separate sections? >>>> >>> >>>> >>> 2010/11/5 Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Hi Lukasz, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sorry for the late reply -- these images are really starting to look >>>> >>>> better every time! I really think this design is getting very close >>>> >>>> to the end result and we should start to integrate things into the >>>> >>>> website20 sandbox project. I love the general look and feel, the >>>> >>>> images and icons in the boxes, the way a new user is guided to the >>>> >>>> downloads/docs/community from his/her first visit, the fact that we >>>> >>>> also have a window on what's happening in twitter/blogosphere/jira/... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Just a few minor things about this last proposal: >>>> >>>> - I'd make the blue bar on the top slightly lower, there's no need for >>>> >>>> the search box to be 3 x the height of the letters >>>> >>>> - I'm not sure about the big 'Leading enterprise service bus...' image >>>> >>>> at the top >>>> >>>> - The blue box around the home navigation item looks a bit big >>>> >>>> compared to everything else in the header, perhaps we can find another >>>> >>>> way to highlight the current page? >>>> >>>> - We'd have to find a way to make the three boxes at the bottom look a >>>> >>>> bit more similar, but we can probably do that by replacing the widgets >>>> >>>> with a little RSS javascript thingy though >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Anyway, if we can get this thing worked out over the next few weeks so >>>> >>>> it can go live together with the new release, that will be an awesome >>>> >>>> achievement for the ServiceMix community. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for all the hard work you're putting into these proposals! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Gert Vanthienen >>>> >>>> ------------------------ >>>> >>>> FuseSource >>>> >>>> Web: http://fusesource.com >>>> >>>> Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2010/11/3 Łukasz Dywicki <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>>> I have all ideas connected into one page: >>>> >>>>> http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1718/servicemix46.jpg >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Please take a look and let us know - is it nice and what could be >>>> >>>>> done >>>> >>>>> better. >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>>> Lukasz >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> >>>>> From: Eric Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 12:48 AM >>>> >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>> > Cheers, >>>> > Guillaume Nodet >>>> > ------------------------ >>>> > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >>>> > ------------------------ >>>> > Open Source SOA >>>> > http://fusesource.com >>>> > >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Principle Technical Writer >>>> >>>> Phone (781) 280-4174 >>>> Skype finnmccumial >>>> E-Mail [email protected] >>>> Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Principle Technical Writer >>> Phone (781) 280-4174 >>> Skype finnmccumial >>> E-Mail [email protected] >>> Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Claus Ibsen >> ----------------- >> FuseSource >> Email: [email protected] >> Web: http://fusesource.com >> Twitter: davsclaus >> Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ >> Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/ >> > > > > -- > Principle Technical Writer > Phone (781) 280-4174 > Skype finnmccumial > E-Mail [email protected] > Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/ > -- Principle Technical Writer Phone (781) 280-4174 Skype finnmccumial E-Mail [email protected] Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/
