On 2011-02-24 Pieter wrote: > +1 for a slideshow - that would be an attention grabber. But which > format would you like to use for the slideshow? I have three ideas. > > - SCREENSHOTS. Show off some of the things that are unique to > openSUSE and by extension Linux. One image with a caption on each > slide. - TALKING POINTS. Rotate between a few one-liners that > highlight key advantages over other operating systems or > distributions. Use neutral, abstract backgrounds. Here's an example > I put together in five minutes using existing material: > http://i.imgur.com/ob0tz.png You can link these talking points to > other pages for more information.
Nice. We already have some slideshow information, would you be willing to create a few more of those and put it online with the other marketing materials in this area: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials#Slideshow > - BOTH. Explain talking points briefly and balance out the text with > an image or a screenshot. Ubuntu's website at http://www.ubuntu.com/ > features a good example. This approach requires more space than is > available in the website design draft however, otherwise the > slideshow would look packed and wouldn't be inviting to take a look > at. > > I like the design, but I noticed that the column alignment isn't > entirely consistent. > I highlighted the table grid in blue here: > http://i.imgur.com/qGMu6.png > > Cheers, > Pieter > > 2011/2/24 Thomas Schmidt <[email protected]> > > > On 24.02.2011 08:55, Manu Gupta wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > I know it is abrupt but I need some help > > > Have a look at this http://suseware.com/trial/extended.php > > > > > > I will like all of us to apply our minds to get a set of images > > > that can work as a slide show instead of the 11.2 box.. > > > > > > Also, please check the links below.. see if something is missing > > > > > > I know I have to add twitter, identica and facebook > > > > Hi Manu! > > I agree we should replace the box with a slideshow. > > Some more things we need to work on until we can put this into > > production: - I18n: Probably we should use PHP Gettext for this. > > We need the language dependant content in .pot files, so we can > > make use of our translation community to have the landing page in > > many languages > > - Automatic redirect to the users language > > - The bento javascript files should get sourced from static.o.o so > > we don't have to update all sites when something changes in the > > menu. > > - The 'openSUSE Project' box: I'm not sure we need that, maybe we > > should just add more links in the text on the left side, as those > > links are also in the header and the footer Instead of this I > > would add an additional box with the latest community blogs from > > planetsuse. > > > > Could you push this to our infrastructure svn at: > > https://developer.berlios.de/projects/opensuse/ So we can work > > together on it? > > > > Greetings > > > > -- > > Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) > > openSUSE Boosters Team > > "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [email protected]
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