On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:56:09PM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: > > Here are some ideas I had on revamping the web site. > > Graphic Design > -------------- > > * Change the background to white or another light color. Maybe change > the main content area to a different shade too, rather than current grey. > > * A set of background/side illustrations, that convey some of the more > general themes of VOS and Interreality -- interconected things; > multifaceted stuff; distributed structures -- but also look cool and > have a "computer graphics" style to them.
Sure. I did the current design a few years ago based on an even older design of yours (still online at http://interreality.sourceforge.net/ !!!) (we should probably take down the sourceforce page, although it is of historical interest ;-) Anyway, I don't claim to be a competent graphic designer, and the interreality.org cascading style sheet has grown completely out of control, so it is probably time to start over from scratch from a design standpoint. Anybody want to help do a new site design? > Pages > ----- > > It's great that the site runs on hypervos. Maybe we want to keep it, or > maybe we want to switch to something else then go back to it. It would > be great to have text in Vobjects that can be reused on multiple pages. Having updated the pages, I think it's worth staying with HyperVOS for now. We'll want to transition to an s5-based system eventually, but we need s5 first. > If we use a wiki for the main pages, we'd need to hide all the meta wiki > stuff. I've seen quite a few projects that use a more or less straight up wiki for their whole site, take http://bazaar-vcs.org/ for example. Hiding the wiki links does look more polished, though. > Sections > -------- > > I don't think we really need a hierarchy [with the exception of "About", > see below], at least for the "public facing" aspect. These links can be > listen in a little table or grid at the top of the page, like they are > now (but set in a grid so they line up nicely, perhaps with logical > groping/separation). > > * About [See below] > * Screenshots > * News [redirects to forum announcements] > * Download > * Docs > > * Forums > * Mailing Lists > * IRC > * Servers [not at first, but eventually link to running servers] > > * Bugz > * Contact That's pretty much what it is divided up into right now, minus a "contact" page, and no "servers" page since there are none. > About Section/Docs > ------------------ My main concern is that so much stuff is changing, in terms of both overall goals (trying to be a more focused on addressing specific tasks) and in the specifics of the technology, its hard to write useful documentation until development has settled down a bit. -- [ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet] [ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ] [ http://interreality.org/~tetron ][ pgpkey: pgpkeys.mit.edu 18C21DF7 ]
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