On 06/30, Greg Sutcliffe wrote: > This would make us very similar to sites such as centos.org, ovirt.org, > apache.org, gluster.org and so on, who all make sure there's some form of > "Latest News" that catches the users' eye within the screen area of the > very first page load. > > Attached is a rough mockup I did in Gimp using the "latest news" section > from ovirt.org. Clearly we can work on what content should be displayed - > it's the layout that I want to get right up front, since that's where the > work is. Putting the first few blog entries up front will also allow us to > remove the link from the top, since overcrowding has been mentioned as a > concern.
Sorry, I think losing the whitespace (blue) we have, at the cost of moving the most important parts of the frontpage (description, 'get started' and 'learn more') isn't worth it. Also moving these things to the left looks worse IMO and make them seem less important. > > My second concern is about getting important info to people not loading the > frontpage, such as large events or important CVEs. This is less serious, > but we may as well consider it - according to the analytics, only 22% of > users have "/" as the landing page. However, the 2nd place is only 5% and > it quickly drops off from there, so the options seems to be (a) only the > frontpage, or (b) some kind of info on every page. > > The PR at [1] is a suggested option for this, used to highlight things we > think people really shouldn't miss. It's intended for infrequent use, maybe > a few times a year. I don't think it's good to have it always-on - it will > lose its impact value then. Honestly I'd prefer that (just one line!) for things like that, the yearly survey, releases, CVEs, critical events... I realize others will disagree. > So, voices wanted! I have a short-term goal of promoting the birthday > events as much as I can (the lovely people who have donated their time and > venues to us deserve the best promotion we can give back), but I also want > to get the revamp right. I'd like to hear: > > (a) does the proposed design work for you? No, sorry > (b) if not, what would be your counter-proposal for highlighting > news/events etc? Top banner (1 line at most) on top of every page? I think it'll be rather difficult, or impossible (not to mention slow) to keep everyone happy with this. If you can some designer to make your proposal of last news on the frontpage look good without making the main elements more important, I guess that'd work. https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3400 would also work great and no one has to change the frontpage in that case :) > (c) should we keep the top banner for occasional use? Yes. It'd be a pain to measure but there are certain actions we need from the community (testing RCs, filling the survey, upgrading, going to events...) that I think we'd get more input on if we had that in there. > Thanks! > > [1] https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org/pull/651 > > Greg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "foreman-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Daniel Lobato Garcia @dLobatog blog.daniellobato.me daniellobato.me GPG: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7A92D6DD38D6DE30 Keybase: https://keybase.io/elobato -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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