What would you say we have a Video chat tomorrow and discuss this? I've already had a few plans on how to achieve what you've said, bit with the Advertica Lite theme. There still are a lot of pieces to be put toghether though.
I've got a friend of mine do design some new icons and pictures for the site. Tell me when you can meet. În ziua de Joi 26 Feb 2015, la 21:50:21, Paweł Abramowicz a scris: > Nah, it really *is* "tl". > > So tl;dr: > > Advertica Lite good for a news site, which might be different from the main > landing site. > > Landing site should contain "call-to-action": a simplified way to download > Kubuntu; feature tour should either be a cta or be the main page. > > Not included in original message: people scroll more, click less than before > [citation needed, although I've seen some research on this]. > > Good examples of distro sites: http://www.ubuntu.com/ ; http://elementary.io/ > ; good for its purposes: https://getfedora.org/ ; good usability, not quite > good design: http://www.linuxmint.com/ (not incl. in orig.) ; BAD EXAMPLES: > https://www.archlinux.org/ ; https://www.debian.org/ . > > Make it more vivid ( ;) ) by showing a photo with a Kubuntu-running Linux in > a good-looking environment. > > And yeah, I forgot to mention mobiles: instead of call to download - "let us > send you an e-mail with a download link". > > Everything for now, I think. > > 2015-02-26 21:48 GMT+01:00 Paweł Abramowicz <[email protected]>: > Hey, > > This is Paweł 'Avras' Abramowicz here, the Quintasan's flatmate from earlier > discussion; together with a bunch of my friends we're designing websites for > some time now. > > To add my two pennies worth; I see Advertica Lite as a very refreshing > proposal, but as it is a multi-purpose theme, it would need some serious > tweaking to fit Kubuntu perfectly. Its text pages are really good, and it > would be a neat theme for Kubuntu News, obviously, but rearranging the tour > and main page using Wordpress and Wordpress only (even with theme options, > but without struggling with editing the theme's CSS and PHP) might prove > difficult. I have minor concerns about the parallax, too; it must be done > right to achieve any effect, and not just be a pure decoration – and when it > is, it must be a bit more subtle. > > Browsing through other distros' sites I've observed a few features worth > discussing. I'll drop the links on the end of my e-mail. > > To start with, the first page a potential user sees of Ubuntu [1], Elementary > OS [2] or even Fedora [3] to some extent, are optimised for newcomers; they > have either a feature tour right on the first page, or there is a big button > (or, as marketers say, a Call-To-Action) to download or see for yourself if > you are not yet convinced. Debian [4] tried, but the only thing they did is a > white button, not big enough for a 1366x768 screen, not to mention Full HD > ones. > > There is a trend to delegate the news section to a dedicated blog [2n], [3n]. > It might be a fad, but I think it's a good idea, and you can use a distinct, > but similar theme for the blog. I think that's where Advertica Lite should > go, as its typography is perfect, but the landing page is not convincing > enough. A different look for a news site allows for a few modifications, too; > you can expose RSS feed and category listings, and hide irrelevant options > from the menu. The main page and the rest of the site is mostly about > visuals; the news site is all about text. > > The question if Advertica Lite won't just be maintaining a status quo in > people's reaction (except from the change from "oh, it's old" to "oh, it's > new") is not about what it does right, but about what it doesn't, and what's > wrong that it doesn't avoid. It's basically another do-all news site without > a strong feeling of what you should do next. I know Kubuntu is not a > commercial project, and we don't need to bait people into buying anything, > but it would be beneficial even for a veteran user to have a visual cue to > locate the download button; the download process itself should be > straight-forward and amount of clicks needed should be minimised. A new > release, or just a current number of a version the download button points to, > should be easy to spot. The intent of the page – here, we have the best Linux > for both casual and experienced users, that is good for every environment – > should be clear. > > The bad practices are now easy to point in ArchLinux' site[5] - a KISS distro > that has a reddit-type, complex website, where there is only one download > button, hidden from plain sight. Debian[4] is not good either - it's > engineer's interpretation of good practices in design, that turned out badly. > The 16-colour-palette blue is not a pleasant hue, the download call-to-action > is tiny on Full HD screens, and while the site is responsive, it is certainly > not mobile-friendly (links are densely packed, the colors are too contrasting > and hurt eyes in the long run). > > To end on a positive note, there are a few features worth using :) The double > menu (static big one in header and fixed top when scrolled down) is a good > idea, but its execution could be a bit better [6]. The header image is OK, > but it can contain a call-to-action within it, *Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN* GeekAliens.com[1] Kubuntu România -------- [1] http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com
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