Thanks, the website's flaws are starting to show. Anything else that you find wrong or you have any suggestions please just email me. Most of the feedback that I have had about the orange links is that it gives the site more of a friendly feel to it. Just do a search and you find tonnes of information colours and their meaning (most of it junk but the occasional useful piece of information (have a look at the first bit of http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-13-2005-64166.asp)). btw. I'm not sure whether any of this information is right but it seems to be sort of understandable. I am an amateur photographer but if I wanted to take a photo for GNOME what would I take a photo of? What are 'suitable photos'? No I do not think that RedHat, Novell, Sun, Ubuntu, Nokia, etc. or anyone other than the marketing list and the web list have been contacted. I encourage anyone who can to try and persuade any company that uses GNOME to give us a hand even just a tiny bit of help would be great. Btw. What do we want the corporations to do for us? Thanks, Hugh Buzacott -----Original Message----- On Mo, 2005-09-26 at 11:15 +1000, Hugh Buzacott wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean with the last paragraph; do you mean the blue > works well or the other colours of the site do not work well. I was a bit taken aback by the orange, but the biggest problem with the colours is probably that they are not from the same palette. (the grey/blue at the top is from a pastel-like palette, the orange is from a warm palette and the blue in the icons use some very saturated colours.) > A 'teaser' image would be good, but what does the teaser image have in it? > What message would we convey in the 'teaser' image? Someone's got to come up with a good and short message. Choose some simple and straight facts about the product, like - Stable - Simple - Free - Open Source - Pretty - Developer's paradise - Multi platform - Smart behaviour - ... Select one or two that you want to stand out the most and build your phrase out of that, or even just stick with the word as a phrase - it doesn't have to be a complete sentence. There are a couple of strategies for building your brand on the web, it's worth some research. > How often do we change > it (Microsoft and Apple change the images on their homepages regularly; do > we have the resources?)? I think we do, we have been switching the images on the homepage for quite a while now. > We are trying to work the text into as little as possible (I had not looked > at either Microsoft's or Apple's website and now I see that they have almost > no text (in Apple's case none other than the headlines and some legal > ramblings down the bottom)). > > The only problem with the images at 'debain.org/stuff/gnomeorg.png' is that > the images seem irrelevant, yes it looks good but if I go to Gnome.org do I > want to have a look at the release notes what do you expect me to look for; > a picture of a flower? Have we contacted our friends at RedHat, Novell, Sun, Ubuntu, Nokia, ...? All of those companies use GNOME products, and they also have marketing departments. Surely they can make some resources (professional photography) available that fit into the right context. Once we have decided what context exactly we are looking for, we could involve them. We can also send a shout out to our GNOME photo geeks asking for suitable photos, though I am not sure what is the right place for sending a call and have it heard. -Samuel
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