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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