Re: [Gimp-web] Simplifying the home page introductions

[Quentin Pradet <quentin pradet gmail com>]

Hello Pat,

Thanks for your suggestion. I implemented it, but I don't know how to make
it look good. http://gimp.pradet.me/patdavidsuggestion/

I would be happy <http://gimp.pradet.me/patdavidsuggestion/> to get more
feedback.

Quentin


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Pat David <patdavid gmail com> wrote:

> Just my thought, but I would consider a single line of text above the intro
> paragraph with something like "The Official GIMP Web Site", in a larger
> font-size (1.5em roughly?)  It could be styled the same as the following
> para (class="intropara"), just apply a local style with a larger font size,
> and possibly emphasis on "official"?
>
> That way, just below the splash image there is a very prominent line
> stating this is the official website, followed directly by an introduction.
>
> --
> pat david
> http://blog.patdavid.net
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Quentin Pradet <quentin pradet gmail com
> > wrote:
>
> > I received some feedback from schumaml on IRC : "many people already
> > mistake all sorts of other sites as "official". removing this text is not
> > going to help with that". I had not thought about it, and even though
> most
> > people don't read such content, it's a real issue.
> >
> > Is the new version at http://gimp.pradet.me/ better? I added the
> official
> > part, the text is bigger. It's possible to emphasize on the 'official'
> word
> > too. I do think it's important to simplify the text (it did confuse me!),
> > but maybe it's not worth it to your eyes: I will work on other things if
> > this is the case.
> >
> > Quentin
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Quentin Pradet
> > <quentin pradet gmail com>wrote:
> >
> > > Sure, here we are: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724440
> > >
> > > Quentin
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
> > > alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Quentin Pradet wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > The main page has two introductory texts ('GIMP is ...' and 'This is
> > > > ...').
> > > > > I believe only one text is enough, for two main reasons: 1/ it's
> > > > confusing
> > > > > and 2/ Happy talk must
> > > > > die<
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/happy-talk-must-die.html
> > > .
> > > > > I'd be happy to submit a patch.
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you think?
> > > >
> > > > Submit a patch :)
> > > >
> > > > Alexandre
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