Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi everybody, Using Lee's site structure wireframe mockup, I put together another iteration of the WGO look feel mockup: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel Below I'm going to highlight some issues and bring up some questions to hopefully continue the discussion flowing! :) - * I included the Planet GNOME module thingy we've been talking about, which doesn't include any subject lines or blog post text as we discussed. What do you think about how this is shaping up visually? Do you think it adds value to the front page without divulging blog post subject lines or content? Does it serve as a good 'advertisement' or upsell of planet.gnome.org? It looks nice, I think its shaping up well! (Is this even what we're looking to do? Revisiting a post from Jeff [1], should we be focusing more on feeds from various community websites than focusing exclusively on personal feeds from PGO?) * Currently on WGO, we have a separate News column and a separate events column. Do we want to consolidate news events into one feed? Or just have news in that column in the center, and advertise events via the events banner on the right? I think we add the feed where appropriate so another feed for the events on right hand side would be fine. * I've been following the Tango palette for all the little filler banners and everything else, and I think it works well so I'm going to set that as a WGO look feel guideline I think. Tango must be the way to go as GNOME and other freedesktops will be using the themes. It can only give the site a better feel which relates to its desktop. * What do you think about the overall look of the little icons? (newspaper, globe with chat bubbles, mini chatbubble icons, globe icons) Do they fit an overall style we wouldn't be opposed to running with? Im not sure, but they look okay and appear to fit in well with other components. * With the structure wireframe fleshed out a bit, is there a need to revisit some of the layout decisions that have been made now you can see what it'd look like with filler content? My only niggle is you have left out the decorative strip under the General Navigation Bar. Also I think the primary Bar should be like tabs, like the Apple Site. The GNOME logo shouldcover the General Bar and Primary Bar as the mockup suggests. The General NAv bar also needs to be less in height see Guadec. But in all I think we are getting there. If you do want any changes to the mockups on the layout page let me know and I will gladly change them to suit. * Panos, you had mentioned [2] not quite liking the design of the top bars - if you have some spare time to sketch out any ideas you have, I'd love to incorporate them! :) [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00089.html [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00098.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi everybody, Using Lee's site structure wireframe mockup, I put together another iteration of the WGO look feel mockup: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel Snip. * I've been following the Tango palette for all the little filler banners and everything else, and I think it works well so I'm going to set that as a WGO look feel guideline I think. * What do you think about the overall look of the little icons? (newspaper, globe with chat bubbles, mini chatbubble icons, globe icons) Do they fit an overall style we wouldn't be opposed to running with? Hi Máirín! I really like where this is heading. Fixed up the globe a tiny bit following the style guidelines better (and using the g-i-t globe). http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/globe-with-bubbles2.png http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/globe-with-bubbles2.svg I'll dig into some of the other illustrations and hopefully we can work out something cool. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
--- Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, Using Lee's site structure wireframe mockup, I put together another iteration of the WGO look feel mockup: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel Below I'm going to highlight some issues and bring up some questions to hopefully continue the discussion flowing! :) - snip * Panos, you had mentioned [2] not quite liking the design of the top bars - if you have some spare time to sketch out any ideas you have, I'd love to incorporate them! :) I thought we were going to use the guadec-style general navbar? I like the rounded and separated look, but I also thought we were going with the dotted-line snapped look of your earlier mockup. ___ All new Yahoo! Mail The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use. - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Hi Joachim, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Panos, you had mentioned [2] not quite liking the design of the top bars - if you have some spare time to sketch out any ideas you have, I'd love to incorporate them! :) I thought we were going to use the guadec-style general navbar? Yep, I noticed that discussion on the LookFeel wiki page after I uploaded everything so I'll add that next iteration (I added a comment there [1]). :) I like the rounded and separated look, but I also thought we were going with the dotted-line snapped look of your earlier mockup. I didn't know that we had settled on that yet, but I can make a version adding it back using the new layout too to see how it works. :) ~m [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
WGO Revamp: Look and feel
The Primary bar needs to look like tabs see two sites for examples:- http://www.apple.com/ http://www.mysql.com/ Regards Lee -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Andreas Nilsson wrote: Fixed up the globe a tiny bit following the style guidelines better (and using the g-i-t globe). http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/globe-with-bubbles2.png http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/globe-with-bubbles2.svg Sweet, these look great - much better at my feeble attempt, lol. I'll dig into some of the other illustrations and hopefully we can work out something cool. Awesome! Thanks Andreas! ~m -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and feel
LeeTambiah wrote: the General Nav Bar which contains the links NewsProjectsArtSupportDevelopmentCommunity should be guadec style. The Primary bar with ProductsSuccess Stories Getting Started etc should have a tabular feel like the Apple and mysql site. Ah! Ok, gotcha now. :) Sorry for the confusion. ~m -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Excellent work, Máirín! My general comment is that we need to distinguish better between promos and infos. Slogan block, Featured product and Upcoming events are infos. Perhaps rounded corners for promos and white backgrounds for infos? I also think that we can save a lot of links words in the info blocks. Both measures would help focusing the user attention. Currently it looks great, but a bit too flashy in every corner so it's not easy to decide where to go next. Also, is this going to work in 800x600? Going into details... On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 01:22 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: * I included the Planet GNOME module thingy we've been talking about, which doesn't include any subject lines or blog post text as we discussed. What do you think about how this is shaping up visually? What about puting 6 faces instead of 3 in the same space, using 2 columns? Each entry would have only hackergotchi an id and the tiny bubble (location also would be cool, but this needs an extra hack to the Planet). At the bottom See all + 3 bubbles icon is perhaps enough. I wonder if we should have the RSS feed here. Can't is generate conflict with the News feed for subscriptions via web browser? Besides, I wonder who is going to aggregate the feed from there before visiting the Planet itself. About the title what about Talks in Planet GNOME or something saying explicitly Planet GNOME. (Is this even what we're looking to do? Revisiting a post from Jeff [1], should we be focusing more on feeds from various community websites than focusing exclusively on personal feeds from PGO?) This is what the GNOME News block should do. Instead of showing just one news piece with summary it would be better to have the 3 last entries with project logo, title and date. The RSS icon could go at the bottom and we will see what other links are we putting next to it. * Currently on WGO, we have a separate News column and a separate events column. Do we want to consolidate news events into one feed? Or just have news in that column in the center, and advertise events via the events banner on the right? Events go apart. They are not only GNOME events like GUADEC and Boston summit, they are also events with GNOME presence. It would have also a info appearance like the News and Planet blocks and it could even be aligned at the top with these other 2 blocks. It would contain the last entries: logo, name and date - including perhaps a very shoot description i.e. Visit the GNOME stand, Attend our speaks or something like that (unsure about this). * What do you think about the overall look of the little icons? (newspaper, globe with chat bubbles, mini chatbubble icons, globe icons) Do they fit an overall style we wouldn't be opposed to running with? In general I think it is good that we showcase already created icons belonging to the desktop, when they accomplish a similar function in the web. Like using the Tango palette, it is a way to give users an indirect hint of what is the desktop about, and GNOME users would feel more like at /home. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to show all these feet in the primary nav bar. We are used to see GNOME feed all around but how would it look like to new users? More comments: - Navigation. The General nav should be like guadec.org, only taking out the [foot] GNOMRE in the left, since we are having a big GNOME logo coming from the primary nav bar and overlapping the General nav. Since we are playing with gray in the General bar we will need to find another color more prominent for the primary bar. I guess we will need to play with secondary pages in order to get the perfect primary bar, since it needs to play well together with the secondary. - Search. What about placing a standard Search button on the right of the field instead of the Search gnome.org text? - Can you add English to the choose language dropdown menu? It will be clearer. - GNOME slogan, we were thinking of combining in a block a slogan and a screenshot of a GNOME desktop, so people having no idea of whbat GNOME is could get a visual hint with that block linking to the About page. We don't have as much space as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME for the thumbnail but still I think it's with to give it a try to show that what we make has to do with a computer desktop. - Featured product should be an info block with title, short description and logo. Think that this block would be taking the content from a database, needs to have a template. - Banner area. It is ok by now to play with just one big banner but in some iteration we will need to see how that area works with 2 or more. If we find effective ways to do so we can perhaps save the banner of choice in the right column. Well, enough comments for this iteration. Congratulations for your work. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://pinguino.tv signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quim Gil wrote: Excellent work, Máirín! My general comment is that we need to distinguish better between promos and infos. Slogan block, Featured product and Upcoming events are infos. Perhaps rounded corners for promos and white backgrounds for infos? I also think that we can save a lot of links words in the info blocks. Both measures would help focusing the user attention. Currently it looks great, but a bit too flashy in every corner so it's not easy to decide where to go next. Also, is this going to work in 800x600? I looked into this briefly, the splash image is 744 pixels in width, and basically gives you 100 pixels for the blocks in the right hand column. This isn't enough space! The splash image should be reduced to 600 pixels widths so we have 200pixels to play with including spacing. Viewing the site at a 800x600 resolution would mean the content that is centre aligned would get positioned to the left. Again see the Apple site and reduce your browser size and watch how it compensates, this is how ours should work. Lee P.S I see the plan coming together, we are getting there! What a great process we have too... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFEYEICuXJiM4IKoERAkzYAJ9AgXO9rpO7BQEiPgWIkXLirLQNIgCfTnA/ pS71mjUEZ4/aVEsCL5QbcII= =Viq6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Quim Gil wrote: - Search. What about placing a standard Search button on the right of the field instead of the Search gnome.org text? If we're running short on horisontal space (as Lee mentioned) perhaps something similar to the searchbox on art.gnome.org could be used. I think it's just a couple of lines of javascript. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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--- Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if it's appropriate to show all these feet in the primary nav bar. We are used to see GNOME feed all around but how would it look like to new users? I was thinking the same, it's a bit too heavy having the foot on each navbar item. ___ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Hi everybody, Using Lee's site structure wireframe mockup, I put together another iteration of the WGO look feel mockup: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel Below I'm going to highlight some issues and bring up some questions to hopefully continue the discussion flowing! :) - * I included the Planet GNOME module thingy we've been talking about, which doesn't include any subject lines or blog post text as we discussed. What do you think about how this is shaping up visually? Do you think it adds value to the front page without divulging blog post subject lines or content? Does it serve as a good 'advertisement' or upsell of planet.gnome.org? (Is this even what we're looking to do? Revisiting a post from Jeff [1], should we be focusing more on feeds from various community websites than focusing exclusively on personal feeds from PGO?) * Currently on WGO, we have a separate News column and a separate events column. Do we want to consolidate news events into one feed? Or just have news in that column in the center, and advertise events via the events banner on the right? * I've been following the Tango palette for all the little filler banners and everything else, and I think it works well so I'm going to set that as a WGO look feel guideline I think. * What do you think about the overall look of the little icons? (newspaper, globe with chat bubbles, mini chatbubble icons, globe icons) Do they fit an overall style we wouldn't be opposed to running with? * With the structure wireframe fleshed out a bit, is there a need to revisit some of the layout decisions that have been made now you can see what it'd look like with filler content? * Panos, you had mentioned [2] not quite liking the design of the top bars - if you have some spare time to sketch out any ideas you have, I'd love to incorporate them! :) [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00089.html [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00098.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Going back to http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png I have extracted the purely lookfeel guidelines that can be deduced from this mockup, from this point Máirín can refine and make additions to be implemented in new mockups. See the updated http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://pinguino.tv signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi everybody, So I have a quick mockup that I did a couple weeks ago that I just uploaded to the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png What I'm trying to explore more than looks/style right now is feel: * visual layout - how best to place banner, how and where to place navigation Hi Máirín! Great work as usual! Lee Tambiah had a idea about placing the small banners, where they would go into the right side of the page. http://www.leetambiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/downloads/layoutPlanHome0.5.svg Might be a good idea, as we could place as many/few eye-grabber as we feel like for the moment. That would allow us to not link to really old stuff when we're low on articles or be hindered by lack of space in case we have 4 campaigns running at the same time. Hm, perhaps it's better to keep comments like this in the wiki...I'll put this one there later today. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png Mairin, that looks great. There's something I don't like about the top bars though. From banners to bottom it looks really smooth. Gotta run for now, but I'll try to think of something to actually propose beside noting this :) On 9/12/06, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi everybody, So I have a quick mockup that I did a couple weeks ago that I just uploaded to the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png What I'm trying to explore more than looks/style right now is feel: * visual layout - how best to place banner, how and where to place navigation Hi Máirín! Great work as usual! Lee Tambiah had a idea about placing the small banners, where they would go into the right side of the page. http://www.leetambiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/downloads/layoutPlanHome0.5.svg Might be a good idea, as we could place as many/few eye-grabber as we feel like for the moment. That would allow us to not link to really old stuff when we're low on articles or be hindered by lack of space in case we have 4 campaigns running at the same time. Hm, perhaps it's better to keep comments like this in the wiki...I'll put this one there later today. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Panos Laganakos -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Andreas Nilsson wrote: Lee Tambiah had a idea about placing the small banners, where they would go into the right side of the page. http://www.leetambiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/downloads/layoutPlanHome0.5.svg Might be a good idea, as we could place as many/few eye-grabber as we feel like for the moment. That would allow us to not link to really old stuff when we're low on articles or be hindered by lack of space in case we have 4 campaigns running at the same time. Ah okay cool! That's a good idea. Hm, perhaps it's better to keep comments like this in the wiki...I'll put this one there later today. Ahh, fwiw I find it easier to follow the list - after I sent my email last night I found a whole new maze of wiki notes. :-/ ~m -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi :o) That's the second person to say all we are missing is a theme (the other off list)... I hacked a theme up in July, and have been patiently nudging people since to either put it up or tell me what is wrong with it... http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2006-July/msg4.html Love, Karderio. On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:57 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=karderio So, on the subject of pretty sites, is there any chance of anybody making live.g.o not ugly (Jeff?) ? I still feel it is rather important... We need a moin 1.5 compatible theme for it, that at least (for now) matches wgo. Further changes down the track will be simpler once we have a base to work on. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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quote who=karderio I hacked a theme up in July, and have been patiently nudging people since to either put it up or tell me what is wrong with it... http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2006-July/msg4.html Right - I'll take a look. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ There are men with an appetite for fight and a sense of occasion, and then there is Waugh. - SMH, about Steve -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:37 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: Ahh, fwiw I find it easier to follow the list - after I sent my email last night I found a whole new maze of wiki notes. :-/ Me understands, but... wasn't you who had lost track of marketing-list emails as well? ;) Tip: in your case for the LooknFeel is the other way round: :) You have to follow only two wiki pages where you find the components planned and their rough location in the screen. This saves you from getting lost in the several discussions non affecting lookfeel in marketing-list. If what you mean is that you prefer to receive emails every time something new happens, I recommend you to subscribe to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/ComponentSelection http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/PageStructure And also to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LooknFeel so you know instantly what people is writing there. Hope it helps. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Hi again, On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 23:43 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png I also like the general lookfeel. It looks like we can go ahead defining this style. * visual layout - how best to place banner, how and where to place navigation A mature draft for the homepage structure is available at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/PageStructure - you have there all the elements we want to have, plus their position in the page. It is you choice to get more specific in sizes of each component and its relation with the neighbors. * functionality - what functionality is planned for the site and how will it appear to users? We have a mature list of components at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/ComponentSelection although in this iteration we are not aiming to define the elements of any component (i.e. has the New component a form to subscribe to email updates?). Feel free to improvise with these elements stating clearly in your mockups that this is not final design. * How happy are we with top-level navigation on the wiki [1]? Should I go ahead and use the following headings in mockups: Navigation is being discussed in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Navigation but we don't have a final draft yet (waiting for the revision of the NewWgoStructure). Don't get stuck with texts, you can even go through Lorem Ipsum so people don't get confused with those non-final texts either. About navigation, think that we agree on a neutral General nav bar on the top top à la http://guadec.org that would be shared by all the GNOME subsites. Then a wgo primary nav bar underneath that can be more flashy. The GNOME logo (bigger than the current at wgo) would be based in the wgo bar but would go up overlapping the space of the General bar. We haven't agreed on the position of the wgo secondary nav bar. Lee thinks it should be on the right column, as it is currently in wgo. I think that it is easier to manage when placed directly underneath the primary nav bar. More opinions are welcome. We are considering also a breadcrumb nav component to be used in some cases (but we haven't still defined when). * Based off of the wiki CMS Requirements page [2], I'm going to include the following features in future mocks. Let me know if any of these are problematic: You don't need to put in place anything not defined in the components and page structure. If you find something is missing let's discuss it at a component level before including it in the lookfeel. ** login system Not used in wgo, since by now just a bunch of editors will ned to log in, it will be useless for the 99% of users. ** RSS feeds (news site updates. any others?) News and Planet blocks can have the feed icon, I guess. We haven't talked about a feed of wgo updates in general. If we would decide to have it it would make sense to show it in the page footer. ** search Approved component. ** page keywords Discussed, without agreement. Let's leave them by now. ** language selection (per page) Approved component. ** edit page If we have such link it could be placed in the footer as well, where just a minority of interested users would see it. ** breadcrumb trail (maybe?) Approved component, optional in secondary pages. * Additional features not on the CS requirements page: Has much thought/discussion been done on pulling in information from subsites onto the front page? Here are some ideas I've had: ** planet GNOME mini feeds - maybe the subject lines of the most-recent posts on planet GNOME including little mini hackergotchis. Approved component, although currently under discussion. Let's keep it by now. ** GNOME art mini feed - most recently submitted 5 or top 5 submitted pieces of art ** bugzilla - 5 most recently fixed / opened / updated bugs ** mailing lists - (don't know if this is possible but) 5 most recently posted-to GNOME mailing lists ** CVS - most recent commits. hehe. ** IRC - top 5 most active channels with a link to instructions on how to join in We are aiming in this release to a less is more approach, in wgo in general and specifically in the homepage. This dynamic content might be appropriate for other pages, but in the home would be excessive, I think. When people ask why do we need a login at wgo one of the answers could be to customize your homepage, get rid of the big splash banner and put instead the feeds Máirín suggested. ;) This discussion has no place in the current release, though. ** Footnotes - subjects from the 5 most-recently updated (eg comments) posts There is a News component approved. We need to decide if what we list there are the last 5 footnotes news or something else (a News gateway is under planning, and it could bring a wider source of news - in any case this doesn't affect your lookfeel work. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description:
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Hi again, On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 23:43 -0400, MáirÃn Duffy wrote: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png I also like the general lookfeel. It looks like we can go ahead defining this style. I'd like the GNOME logo to be bigger, at least as big as it is on the web site now. It's a mock up, of course, but I am also concerned that it might enforce a fixed (maximum) width. I hope we can avoid that. [snip] Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Hi everybody, So I have a quick mockup that I did a couple weeks ago that I just uploaded to the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png What I'm trying to explore more than looks/style right now is feel: * visual layout - how best to place banner, how and where to place navigation * functionality - what functionality is planned for the site and how will it appear to users? I must admit here that I have not been following the list as closely as I would have liked to, so forgive me if I've missed already-discussed details - Here are some questions I have going forward: * How happy are we with top-level navigation on the wiki [1]? Should I go ahead and use the following headings in mockups: ** about ** download ** support ** community ** contribute ** development ** contact * Based off of the wiki CMS Requirements page [2], I'm going to include the following features in future mocks. Let me know if any of these are problematic: ** login system ** RSS feeds (news site updates. any others?) ** search ** page keywords ** language selection (per page) ** edit page ** breadcrumb trail (maybe?) * Additional features not on the CS requirements page: Has much thought/discussion been done on pulling in information from subsites onto the front page? Here are some ideas I've had: ** planet GNOME mini feeds - maybe the subject lines of the most-recent posts on planet GNOME including little mini hackergotchis. ** GNOME art mini feed - most recently submitted 5 or top 5 submitted pieces of art ** bugzilla - 5 most recently fixed / opened / updated bugs ** mailing lists - (don't know if this is possible but) 5 most recently posted-to GNOME mailing lists ** CVS - most recent commits. hehe. ** IRC - top 5 most active channels with a link to instructions on how to join in ** Footnotes - subjects from the 5 most-recently updated (eg comments) posts Thanks, ~m [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure [2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
quote who=karderio So, on the subject of pretty sites, is there any chance of anybody making live.g.o not ugly (Jeff?) ? I still feel it is rather important... We need a moin 1.5 compatible theme for it, that at least (for now) matches wgo. Further changes down the track will be simpler once we have a base to work on. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Trying to get a PC to analyse one of the most abstract forms of language - the poem - is like trying to drill for oil with a banana. - The Register -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
quote who=Máirín Duffy http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png Full of awesome. I really dig this. ** planet GNOME mini feeds - maybe the subject lines of the most-recent posts on planet GNOME including little mini hackergotchis. (This would be a feed of news sources, rather than personal blogs, but all the same in technical terms.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Professor Tanenbaum did not convince AdTI that Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel from scratch. - Ken Brown, Sponsored Moron -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel
Hi :o) On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:13 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Máirín Duffy http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)LooknFeel/attachments/mizmo-wgo-mock-1.png Full of awesome. I really dig this. It certainly is ! It's probably silly of me to mention this, but I suppose the second navigation bar will just fit nicely somewhere. ** planet GNOME mini feeds - maybe the subject lines of the most-recent posts on planet GNOME including little mini hackergotchis. (This would be a feed of news sources, rather than personal blogs, but all the same in technical terms.) Agreed, but discussion ongoing... So, on the subject of pretty sites, is there any chance of anybody making live.g.o not ugly (Jeff?) ? I still feel it is rather important... Love, Karderio. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
