Elena, Glad to lend a hand - certainly, please do take them as suggestions, since I am not a designer in any way shape or form!
However, I do my best as a UI enthusiast and a cheerleader for people who *can* design - thanks again, -Brett On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Elena Petrevska <[email protected]> wrote: > Brett, at first, thanks for the encouragement and for the contribution. I > will comment as I go through the mail. > > On 06/09/2012 07:53 PM, Brett Legree wrote: > > Good day Elena, > > Just a few more ideas to add to the mix, and sort of build on what Sri > suggested. > > I attached a GIMP-edited version of your original image (should I > instead be posting a link to an online site for this? Not sure of the > protocol for the mailing list, if I should please let me know). > > I actually like the changes a lot. It is not a problem in both ways, you are > fine with this method. > > As I am new, I am trying to get a feel for the purpose of the page, so > I did a bit of cut & paste to try and group things together or make > things flow a bit. I put Search up at the top right so it is above the > fold by default, for new and more experienced users, and I suggested > moving the User Login part a bit lower in the hierarchy (since someone > with a login would be familiar with the page). > > You really did some very useful changes. thanks ! > > I thought it was okay to have Join GNOME at the top (not sure where > the link goes - to another page with all of them listed, or to the > bottom of the page where they are spread out?) as well as at the > bottom, as it would seem logical we want people to join the various > projects. > > Or, we could try to have only one link to each topic, to simplify > things for both users and coders (just something I picked up in my > studies of UI/UX, I believe there are 6 or 7 ways to print a document > in Microsoft Word, for instance, via shortcut keys, icons etc., some > of them do the same thing, and some of them do not work exactly the > same way). > > We will talk about this on the mailing list and I will (in the mean time) > take care of implementing them in a design. > > You could experiment with that spread out list of links to the > different Teams, perhaps with justified/non-justified arrangement of > the text, alphabetical ordering maybe, or perhaps some kind of logical > arrangement based on what is most important to the project as a whole > (though I think they are all important - hence the suggestion for > alphabetical ordering). > > I will certainly try it. > > Anyway, just some suggestions of course and apologies for hacking your > image apart (!) my GIMP-fu is still not as strong as it could be, so > the boxes in my edited copy do not always line up the way they could > or might. > > Hope it helps in any case - keep up the good work - Brett > > It was very helpful Brett, thanks again ! > Elena -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
