It make sense to collect opinions of people who use DDL on regular basis especially at schools/in groups. After we collect say 7-10 opinions (the better accompanied by pictures) we stop collecting and just display a random opinion at appropriate section/window. Cheers, Sergey
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Michel Philippe Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:13 AM To: Sergey Komkov Cc: 'doudoulinux-graphics'; 'Богдан Мищук'; doudoulinux-dev Subject: Re: [Doudoulinux-dev] [Doudoulinux-graphics] New design - website Hello, Thanks Sergey for commenting :). > I see the main navigation tool called menu is missing. I suppose you're talking about the main sections download, about, documentation, etc., in the bottom of the page header. I can tell you that the purpose of the new design is to make a website that doesn't look like a labyrinth of information and that is able to fit any screen size, from the smallest smartphones to the largest LCD screens. However quick and easy access to the main section may be relevant, so we need more details about the will of our designers as well as opinions from others ;). > Not sure Lang page is really needed - usually site platform defines > browser language automatically. This is a discussion to feed. It seems most of us are happy with automatic language selection but in some cases, it may not work for an unknown reason. If someone is in this case, please tell us what is happening. There may also be detailed information about this issue on the Internet. I must I've never search for. Personally I'd find boring to have to choose my language everytime I'm visiting the website. I think it is also interesting to be able to change of language from any page, particularly because not all pages are translated. > 1. think we'd need news/opinions section instead of blog - it > would show the system is established. there can be a small block below > header showing a random opinion clickable Opinions from who, our visitors? I'm not sure we'd really want this because this requires daily moderation… On the contrary I agree we could show pieces of articles speaking about us. If we only show titles or short excerpts, this can be combined with blog and micro-blogging titles. > 2. we should save partners' banners plus visitors map (but > rearrange it in order of publicity and possibly move to bottom) to > show the same Yes, partner banners are missing. The visitor map too since this partially answers to the question “is it really a project to trust in?”. > 3. the most challenging part of redesign is rearranging right side > menu - it became huge and hard to deal with. Ideally it should be > moved to left and only 4 main sections should be visible at home page. > the rest will popup upon mouse focus on section menu. in this case we > can escape download/about/docs/etc menu at the top Maybe the right menu should go to the page bottom to reduce the amount of information. Popup menus won't work on tactile devices, we should avoid using them, unless the small screen design is quite different from the other screens, but I understood no and I think it'd be better for clarity if we tend to simplicity everywhere. > 4. as for lower menu at the top we should get rid of it too - > possibly move it to the bottom Yes, I agree. I think this was planned. > 5. donations/shop banners would look great under the menu Exactly. Initially I proposed to use 3 boxes of identical size just below the header, with a nice large icon in each of them. The order should be shop, donation, download because we'd like the project to survive! Note that the challenge is that we currently have no shop nor donation system! > 6. search field would be placed in not so important area of site > (say at right column or at bottom) Probably better on the right side, I'm not sure to have ever seen this at the bottom. > I would summarize it in a handwriting. In your draw, I think our web designer will disagree with the third column, on the right. Unless it is simply suppressed in small screen designs, we won't know what to do with it. I tend to think it can be removed for all if it can be for small screens! Indeed, we should try to apply the DDL design to our website: move out of sight everything that is not strictly necessary for the standard visitor, especially the first time visitors. This is the purpose of this new design: show the first time visitors relevant information to make them test DDL then come back later to read more or support us ;). -- Cheers, JM. -- Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
