Re: On joining the GNOME web team...

[Peter Slavek <pjslavek gmail com>]

Hello,

With the Friends of GNOME mock-up, I was just exploring what the page
could look like with an expanded corporate sponsorship section, as per
Brian Cameron's email [1]. Emily Rose also mentioned the possibility
of different sponsorship levels [2], so this might affect the final
layout too.

Before we change the wording, though, I think the marketing team
should decide on exactly what it should be.

We could just re-work the current FoG page so it has the same wording
as the original but with the new gnome.org theme, so at least it looks
better. Any future decision on changing the wording could be easily
implemented, given the flexibility of the new theme.

I'd also like to suggest that the FoG page be situated at
foundation.gnome.org/friends. It seems that - correct me if I'm wrong
- FoG is really just the fundraising part of the Foundation, and it
would be logical to have it as a part of the Foundation subsite.

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-September/msg00079.html
[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-September/msg00080.html


== The wiki and FTP pages ==

I've just started out with github. My repo for GNOME web work is at [3].

I put the ones and zeros on the wiki page in response to your idea,
Luc, that the wiki design should convey a sense of being a
work-in-progress. I just found it difficult to incorporate an effect
of ripped or crumpled paper into the design - I'm afraid I'm not that
talented. If it could be done, though, and if it looks good, I'd have
no problem with it. I've tested your wiki CSS, Andreas, and it's
coming along very nicely indeed!

With the FTP mock-up, I just put the current monospace content from
[4] and stuck it between the current gnome.org header and footer (with
a bit of CSS in the page to reduce the margin of the <hr> element). If
we want anything other than mono-spacing on the FTP server, I think
we'd have to re-configure the web server to serve up directory pages
with tables or something. I see that getting quite complicated, and
probably being a lot of work.

I'm not sure about the "Up to a higher level directory" wording; I can
only see "Parent Directory" on my end. And when you mention the
footer, Andreas, do you mean the grass at the bottom? is there a cache
of different footers we could pick from, or shall we design a new one
for the FTP site?

[3] https://github.com/pjslavek/GNOMEweb
[4] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/


Cheers,
Peter


On 30 September 2011 16:15, Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I like the fading out header image on the wiki page. IMHO the ones and zeros
> would match better with the ftp site. I would suggest to use maybe another
> metaphor: a used notebook texture, like [1] or [2] for example (just 300px
> high).
>
> Also the grass on the wiki page could be with holes, heaps and workers with
> shovels to look like "a work in progress", that is a wiki.
>
> [1] http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=paper+texture#/drok89
> [2] http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=paper+texture#/dsvfzb
> (maybe not that damaged)
>
> Overall I think all the sub-sites should customize gnome.org by following
> the same pattern. For example by changing both the header fading out image,
> and the "grass" footer line. So it is visually consistent from one site to
> another.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 18:58, Peter Slavek <pjslavek gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I did it: I re-worded the /GnomeWeb page, deleted duplicate
>> content from /Team and moved the archive stuff to /Archive.
>>
>> I have attached a tarball with some mock-ups in of FoG, the Wiki and
>> the FTP site. They are basically just re-worked copies of pages in
>> www.gnome.org. I know you've done a mock-up of FoG already, Andreas,
>> but I thought I'd put this forward, based on the current gnome.org CSS
>> and layout, to get the ball rolling. Maybe we could get this finished
>> in the next week or so? It still needs a lot of work, but even if we
>> get something on gnome.org that isn't completely polished, then at
>> least it's not the current FoG site!
>>
>> Apologies these aren't in a git repo - I'm yet to learn how to use git.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 September 2011 14:16, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
>> > On 09/29/2011 02:58 PM, Olav Vitters wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:45:16PM +0100, Peter Slavek wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb. I have a re-worked proposal:
>> >>> https://live.gnome.org/PeterSlavek/LiveProposal. I also propose that
>> >>
>> >> above URL doesn't exist anymore?
>> >
>> > Seems like a JFDI looking at the changelog. :)
>> > - Andreas
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