Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread LeeTambiah
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- 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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

WGO Revamp: Look and feel

2006-09-20 Thread LeeTambiah
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

2006-09-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and feel

2006-09-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread Quim Gil
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread LeeTambiah
-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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-20 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- 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.

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-19 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-18 Thread Quim Gil
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Andreas Nilsson
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Panos Laganakos
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread karderio
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
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,

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Quim Gil
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Quim Gil
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-12 Thread Murray Cumming
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. I'd like the GNOME logo to be bigger, at least as big

WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
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

Re: WGO Revamp: Look and Feel

2006-09-11 Thread karderio
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