Re: [Banshee-List] Ideas for new Banshee web site

[Brandon Perry <bperry volatile gmail com>]

Maybe put a bit of texture on either the body, or the main box (a subtle
lined pattern?). Overall, that is pretty nice.

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:24 -0700, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> I've been following the ideas and referenced sites on the mailing list
> and you're all right... we really do need a new web site.
> 
> The current one is stale, a bit unorganized, and I'm just tired of
> looking at it. I don't think the design is all that bad, but it's
> certainly old at this point.
> 
> Today I started toying with some ideas, borrowing heavily from the
> Blender [1] design, which I particularly like.
> 
> http://abock.org/~aaron/banshee-web
> 
> So I'd like to start gathering more feedback about what to do with the
> web site going forward. For starters, I'd like input on the rough design
> I started. It's hardly complete, but it should be enough to get the feel
> for what I want the new site to look like.
> 
> Next I'd like to discuss the actual content layout for the site. We will
> be incorporating a project blog (not planet, that is separate) which I
> would like to go under the main page's introduction content, like
> Songbird. [2]
> 
> So how do you think the main navigation should be organized? What major
> menu links should we show, and what sort of menu navigation should go
> under those sections?
> 
> For example, I'm thinking of something like this (extremely rough):
> 
> * Home
> * Feature Tour
>   + (Break the tour down by feature categories)
> * Download
>   + Distribution Packages
>   + Sources
>   + Subversion
> * User Guide
>   + (TOC for the guide)
> * Community
>   + Planet
>   + IRC
>   + Mailing List
>   + Etc.
> * Support
>   + FAQ
>   + Help Installing/Dependencies
>   + Filing Bugs
>   + Etc.
> * Developers
>   + Technical docs
>   + Subversion
>   + Bugzilla
>   + Etc.
> 
> The actual site will be powered by some Wiki and WordPress hybrid. I'd
> like to move a lot of the main content into WordPress as the Wiki is a
> bit cumbersome in some cases, but certainly very useful and necessary in
> many others.
> 
> So... feedback, of all sorts!
> 
> Oh, also, the SVG for all of the design elements are here if there are
> any awesome designers out there who want to play around with some ideas.
> I do everything in Inkscape, of course.
>  
> http://abock.org/~aaron/banshee-web/elements.svg
> 
> Best,
> Aaron
> 
> [1] http://blender.org/
> [2] http://songbirdnest.com/
> 
> 
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