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 info blocks. Both measures would help focusing the user attention. Currently it looks great, but a bit too flashy in every corner so it's not easy to decide where to go next. Also, is this going to work in 800x600? Going into details... On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 01:22 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > * I included the Planet GNOME module thingy we've been talking about, > which doesn't include any subject lines or blog post text as we > discussed. What do you think about how this is shaping up visually? What about puting 6 faces instead of 3 in the same space, using 2 columns? Each entry would have only hackergotchi an id and the tiny bubble (location also would be cool, but this needs an extra hack to the Planet). At the bottom "See all" + 3 bubbles icon is perhaps enough. I wonder if we should have the RSS feed here. Can't is generate conflict with the News feed for subscriptions via web browser? Besides, I wonder who is going to aggregate the feed from there before visiting the Planet itself. About the title what about "Talks in Planet GNOME" or something saying explicitly Planet GNOME. > (Is this even what we're looking to do? Revisiting a post from Jeff [1], > should we be focusing more on feeds from various community websites than > focusing exclusively on personal feeds from PGO?) This is what the GNOME News block should do. Instead of showing just one news piece with summary it would be better to have the 3 last entries with project logo, title and date. The RSS icon could go at the bottom and we will see what other links are we putting next to it. > * Currently on WGO, we have a separate News column and a separate events > column. Do we want to consolidate news & events into one feed? Or just > have news in that column in the center, and advertise events via the > events banner on the right? Events go apart. They are not only GNOME events like GUADEC and Boston summit, they are also events with GNOME presence. It would have also a "info" appearance like the News and Planet blocks and it could even be aligned at the top with these other 2 blocks. It would contain the last entries: logo, name and date - including perhaps a very shoot description i.e. "Visit the GNOME stand", "Attend our speaks" or something like that (unsure about this). > * What do you think about the overall look of the little icons? > (newspaper, globe with chat bubbles, mini chatbubble icons, globe icons) > Do they fit an overall style we wouldn't be opposed to running with? In general I think it is good that we showcase already created icons belonging to the desktop, when they accomplish a similar function in the web. Like using the Tango palette, it is a way to give users an indirect hint of what is the desktop about, and GNOME users would feel more like at /home. 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? More comments: - Navigation. The General nav should be like guadec.org, only taking out the [foot] GNOMRE in the left, since we are having a big GNOME logo coming from the primary nav bar and overlapping the General nav. Since we are playing with gray in the General bar we will need to find another color more prominent for the primary bar. I guess we will need to play with secondary pages in order to get the perfect primary bar, since it needs to play well together with the secondary. - Search. What about placing a standard "Search" button on the right of the field instead of the "Search gnome.org" text? - Can you add "English" to the choose language dropdown menu? It will be clearer. - GNOME slogan, we were thinking of combining in a block a slogan and a screenshot of a GNOME desktop, so people having no idea of whbat GNOME is could get a visual hint with that block linking to the About page. We don't have as much space as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME for the thumbnail but still I think it's with to give it a try to show that what we make has to do with a computer desktop. - Featured product should be an info block with title, short description and logo. Think that this block would be taking the content from a database, needs to have a template. - Banner area. It is ok by now to play with just one big banner but in some iteration we will need to see how that area works with 2 or more. If we find effective ways to do so we can perhaps save the "banner of choice" in the right column. Well, enough comments for this iteration. Congratulations for your work. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://pinguino.tv
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