On 9/19/08, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Florent Aide schrieb: > > > I created a ticket #1992 in our trac and begun work on it. Attached is > > 1) I think we should keep the key elements of the visual "brand" for > TurboGears, namely the blue/golden/white color combination and the gear
[...] > > The gear logo could go where the picture of the chinese statue is > currently, for example. Yeah. I tried to load http://trac.turbogears.org/browser/press/artwork/g-gear/golden-gear-logo.ai in Inkscape and succeeded to do so. But unfortunately after ungrouping elements I was unable to find were I could change the color fills... and I though I knew how to use Inkscape ;( If anyone on this list knows how to handle the gears logo we have (vectorial version please) and convert it to something usable with an open source vectorial tool I would be more than grateful. If you know anyone around you who as vector graphics skills I would also appreciate if you asked them for help. The idea behind trying to edit the vector logo was just what you said: try to make the gears a little bit more "aligned" with the template colors and then include it in a prominent situation on the page in replacement of one of the images. Images at the moment in the template should be considered placeholders. Iain Duncan already said (in a private conversation) that he would see with a professional photographer if he can take special photos of gears-like/gears-related stuff that would be free for us to use and place under a permissive CC licence. > 2) I don't like the page background with the wooden pattern. It reminds > me of hobby rooms or kid bedrooms from the seventies ;) I think a simple > medium-dark gradient (maybe grey) would look better. You are perfectly right. The background is not ugly but when I look at it I feel a small hitch that tells me to find something less visible.... Any suggestion is welcome here as well. > > 3) We should ditch the ugly favicon as well. Depending on the color > scheme for the page, we could use the favicon from trac.turbogears.org > maybe, or an adapted version. I think I have the Gimp file for that > somewhere still. Maybe the .ai gears once exported to svg can be reworked inside Inkscape to get a nice favicon? See above questions about vector graphic skills. > > 4) We should not have any elements on the page that do nothing. For > example the links under the "TurboGears works on your machine" section > ("Printer friendly", etc.) or the search field. Sure. I made notes about this in the ticket so that I don't forget but I did not remove those yesterday night because I did not want to go too late into the night... > > For the search field I thought of integrating a custom TG Google search > engine, like this one for TG 2: > > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=013833837327090257708%3Af0q5ocbisby > > Maybe we could even include a template with a search form page? I would prefer a search page of our own because it would work off-line... Even if the search is only using grin [1] to search genshi templates... (only a suggestion) > > I also went ahead and linked the items in the top nav bar to the > sections on the welcome page and the contact item to the "GettingHelp" > page on the wiki. Kool. > > 5) I think the time & date display in the "Learn more" box is a little > unmotivated and misplaced. I think it's main purpose was always to show > that your TG server is really running and a page reload updates the time > & date, so you know everything is running fine. > > My suggestion would be that instead we add an extra template for an > "About" page, that gives more information about the current TG > installation and the system it is running on. The information on this > page could include: > This is excellent! I can't wait to see this page in live. You may want to look at a phpinfo() result page that hangs on the web [2] for inspiration. > Maybe this info should come from a mountable controller in the main > turbogears package instead of being included in the quickstart code. Sounds reasonable to me. Florent. [1] Grin: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grin/ [2] http://www.franklindigitalproperties.com/php_info.php was the first working one Google gave me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
