On 27 Feb 2009, at 14:54, David Farning wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Christian Schmidt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Sean. We are in the final stages of proofing content on the >> betasite, >> and think we will go live this weekend. Stay tuned! > > Christian, I officially withdraw any reservations I had about the > new site:)
Sorry to be negative here. I must admit I still really struggle with this site, I had hoped I'd just seen a very early WIP. All those super large font marketing speak text clippings surrounded by ellipsis; when you click one you're jumped to another large font text /todo/ type list page, covered in block highlights. That odd pop-up menu, permanently floating over the same fixed place and in the way of the main text flow. Due to the large font's, and unusual line spacing, there's a lot of up/down page scrolling needed when really much of the content could fit on a single pages. I'm also not sure what are navigation links are what are not (non-standard, some coloured things are titles, some are links), or what pages I've already been to (link colours change from page to page, not based on visited or one). Not that I completely agree with everything he says, but I think Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com/) will have a coronary if he ever finds this site ;-) Hopefully it's just a combination of the code not working correctly in Safari, and/or me not being the target audience. --Gary P.S. In fairness I should also go through the site again and make a list of things I did like (i.e. the page with grid layout of activities, nice large colourful icons with simple clear descriptions). > I showed it around my nephew's elementary school yesterday; The > teachers, teachers aids, and parents thought it was great! > > The most interesting aspect was the change from the dark to light > background. They thought the dark, over welming, background > represented what one 'expects' from computers and the light background > was what you would 'want' from computers. > > david > >> >> Christian >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Sean DALY [mailto:[email protected]] >> To: ,Josh williams [mailto:[email protected]] >> Cc: David Farning [mailto:[email protected]], [email protected] >> , >> [email protected], Christian Marc Schmidt >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:05:48 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme >> unity >> >> Greetings Josh! >> >> In fact lots of work has been done on this by Christian, see for >> example: >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Logo >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Website >> >> and, in beta: >> http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php >> >> >> May I suggest you join the Marketing list? >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> >> We have IRC meetings on Tuesdays at 1600 UTC: >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/ >> 000341.html >> >> >> We are gearing up for the imminent Sugar 0.84 release. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Sean >> Marketing Coordinator >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:08 AM, ,Josh williams <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >>> Hey David, >>> >>> I have had a quick look at the markup and the CSS, but I haven't >>> actually had a look at the PHP. I laughed when I saw the Mozilla >>> guys >>> had an IE style sheet, but then I figured they were probably just >>> reusing code. I was actually wondering if I could have a local >>> copy of >>> the remora code or access to a development or testing environment at >>> some point? >>> >>> I also agree that we need a common branding for all of the sites, >>> Gnome >>> is a great example I think Mozilla and Ubuntu are good examples >>> to. I >>> think a splash page for www.sugarlabs.org built on WordPress or >>> Drupal >>> would be a really good idea also. It could explain the what the >>> project >>> is, have a download link to the latest version, link to the wiki, >>> press >>> release, news etc. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Josh >>> >>> >>> >>> David Farning wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Wade Brainerd <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey Josh, thanks for the offer of help! >>>>> I definitely like your simple and kid-friendly theme for addons. I >>>>> wonder >>>>> off the top of my head though, if it makes sense to make >>>>> addons.sl.o >>>>> look >>>>> *more* like the other sl.o sites? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Have you gotten a chance to look at the aslo code? >>>> >>>> Things are kind of confusing right now >>>> >>>>> with the different styles of wiki, trac, addons, schools, >>>>> gitorious, >>>>> api, >>>>> buildbot, etc. planet is the lone exception, it seems to follow >>>>> wiki.sugarlabs.org nicely :) >>>>> It would be great if the Design Team could comment on this >>>>> decision. >>>>> Here are a couple other web infrastructure ideas: >>>>> + Improve theming consistency among various SL.o sites. >>>>> + Single sign on cookie among all SL.o sites - perhaps OpenID >>>>> based. >>>>> + Standard nav header atop all SL.o sites rather than the >>>>> various nav >>>>> headers in different places, with different links. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The various gnome sites such as build.gnome.org and www.gnome.org >>>> are >>>> very nice examples of common theming tying sites together. Some >>>> thing >>>> similar for SL would be great. >>>> >>>> david >>>> >>>> >>>>> + Better splash page for Gitorious, looking more like GitWeb - a >>>>> page >>>>> with a >>>>> small search box at the top and the rest being a list of projects, >>>>> sorted by >>>>> recent activity, showing owner and last commit details >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Wade >>>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM, ,Josh williams >>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, I'm working on the design of sugar labs add-ons with Mick >>>>>> Weiss. >>>>>> I've created a mock up at http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design >>>>>> but I've haven't been able to contact anyone on the design team >>>>>> as of >>>>>> yet. I would also like to volunteer some of my time for other >>>>>> projects. >>>>>> I'm primarily a front-end designer with XHTML/CSS JavaScript >>>>>> skills, >>>>>> but >>>>>> I also know some PHP/MySQL and have a background in Linux. I >>>>>> also enjoy >>>>>> creating icons, so if there are any activities developers that >>>>>> need >>>>>> icons please contact me. My portfolio is over at http://tucsonlabs.com >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>>> If you're a member of the design team or have some use for my >>>>>> skills, >>>>>> please let me know. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> Josh >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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