Pushing this forward again as we are close to the 2.0 release.
Regardless of the specific design issues and wether or we like the changes of
content
I believe that it was commonly agreed on the fact that the download dragonfly
button is a very good idea.
I therefore suppose that we at least add
I'm not sure if anyone is going to see this reply (considering how late
it is), but I'd like to mention a few things to address the
comments/concerns of others here.
Firstly it should be mentioned that I had expected to have more time to
work on this (originally), but I started work two weeks
The red mascot was a file I found in our directory of images (I wanted
to use it to counter some of the blues I used). I agree that it
over-power's the download button somewhat. However, it was much harder
to find the download link on the old page.
I was away from home when I designed the
Matthew Dillon wrote:
Well, the site is your baby so if you feel it need to be changed
definitely go and change it.
Here are my own comments on the site:
* I like the placement of the Download button.
* I don't like the placement of the logo. I believe it should go in
They especially need a clear link hierarchy that
is intuitive, which needs planning by someone who knows that kind of
stuff, together with someone that knows DragonFly. My girlfriend Danwei,
who's finishing her Master's in Interaction Design, has said that she'd
very much like to spend a good
Good point. I knew there was something off in that design, but wasn't
sure what. Not being the designer (of the red insect image) I can't
say/do much in regards to this..
The red insect logo is artistic
- but the wing config is more akin to that of the common housefly than a
I'd make the title larger, this way it looks strange right now. I
actually liked the red, so maybe we could have all colors in a css?
just kidding :)
Everyone seems to say the same about the title, so I think it's fair to
say that should be changed... Along with the logo in the title...
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
James Frazer put together a nice site redesign based on some discussion we
had here before. He sent me a copy of it all, and I'm only now catching
up enough to show it:
http://www.shiningsilence.com:81/
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking for further
I really liked the new bar plain color :-)
The green-red plants were getting me blind, the light blue is a lot
more eye-friendly :-)
About logo, i belive the old one is cool to be placed same place it
were, but a 3d-mascot can work too adding a little backward
compatibility in the colors, the
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
James Frazer put together a nice site redesign based on some discussion we
had here before. He sent me a copy of it all, and I'm only now catching
up enough to show it:
http://www.shiningsilence.com:81/
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking for further
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
James Frazer put together a nice site redesign based on some discussion we
had here before. He sent me a copy of it all, and I'm only now catching
up enough to show it:
http://www.shiningsilence.com:81/
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking for further
One more note: One can use the site navigation designs of other BSDs for
inspiration.
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
James Frazer put together a nice site redesign based on some discussion we
had here before. He sent me a copy of it all, and I'm only now catching
up enough to show it:
http://www.shiningsilence.com:81/
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking for
On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:28:56 +0300
Jordan Gordeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One more note: One can use the site navigation designs of other BSDs for
inspiration.
But please not that of the FreeBSD site.
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Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
James Frazer put together a nice site redesign based on some discussion we
had here before. He sent me a copy of it all, and I'm only now catching
up enough to show it:
http://www.shiningsilence.com:81/
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking for further suggestions
for tweaks. If there's no show-stopping objections, I'd like to move the
dragonflybsd.org site to this.
- 1 on the cosmetic changes - looks less cohesive less professional
imho - that being
Its fine, though could use some improvement. Ideally we should have
wiki/mainsite/bugtracker and everything else connected together in a
database(postgres), so that we could use thing such things like full-text
search etc. I am a web developer by profession, so i could help out. That is
if
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On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:28:56 +0300
Well, the site is your baby so if you feel it need to be changed
definitely go and change it.
Here are my own comments on the site:
* I like the placement of the Download button.
* I don't like the placement of the logo. I believe it should go in
the upper left hand
Just my humble comments:
1. Keep one logo that identifies your project, two different
dragonflies in two different postures does not define the official
logo project.
2. Actually I like DragonFly name over DragonFlyBSD name... what is
the correct one? DragonFly (with no BSD) sounds more cool to
James Frazer put together a nice site redesign based on some discussion we
had here before. He sent me a copy of it all, and I'm only now catching
up enough to show it:
http://www.shiningsilence.com:81/
I'm happy with the layout and content; I'm looking for further suggestions
for tweaks. If
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