On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Noah Slater<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey,
I am extremely grateful to Christopher Lenz for designing the first
version of
our official Apache site. However, I think it might be the time for a new
design. There have been a number of other document databases pop up in
the last
year, and we would do well to keep our image modern and fresh.
Some of my initial thoughts:
* The header graphic could make the project name much bigger.
* The header graphic could include the phrase "Time to relax" as a
slogan.
* I'm not happy with the content hugging the left side and an empty
right
gutter. I would prefer a central column with a width between 40 and 50
em
and a margin set to auto. Something generally like
http://miscoranda.com/
would be nice, but a bit thinner.
* The font would probably look better in Georgia and being about 1em.
A man after my own heart!
* Something a bit more like http://books.couchdb.org/relax/ would be
ideal.
Heh. I've been thinking a move in the opposite direction (more
pictographic, not less) could tell the story well. The obvious
role-model in this dept is http://rubyonrails.org/
But that said, I'm open minded and would be happy to see any potential
designs.
Of course, I could just come up with my own design and see what people
thought,
but I'm a little too busy, and thought it might be fun throwing this wide
open
to suggestions from the community. We might have some skilled designers!
Best,
--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
--
Chris Anderson
http://jchrisa.net
http://couch.io
