Re: New Website proposal (mockup)

["Writser Cleveringa" <writser xs4all nl>]

Hey Jonathan,

Your design mockup looks really great! Style, colors are very nice.
However, I think the 'texts' on the site could be better. The most
annoying thing: every item on the top bar is also somewhere else on the
site. That's confusing. And what's behind 'Development'? Tutorials?
Mailing lists? CVS access? API reference?

IMHO, the website should focus at new gtkmm developers. People like me!
They think:

 - Why should I use gtkmm?
 - Where are some tutorials?
 - Where is API documentation?
 - I have a problem, where do I go?
 - Can I use it for a business project?

Some things I would like to see on a website like this:

"Tutorials", or "Getting started with gtkmm"
"API reference"
"Mailing list" and "FAQ"
"Report a bug"
"License"

Then again, I really like the looks of your mockup!

// Writser

> On 4/27/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
>> You should feel free, but try to restrict yourself to just changing the
>> CSS and graphics, to keep the task simple for now.
>>
>> If you need to, of course, you can change the classes and IDs in the
>> HTML, so you can do CSS things with them, if that's not too difficult.
>>
>> >   Do you just want a design update
>> > or do you want an update and re-organization of the information at the
>> > same time?
>>
>> Feel free to make suggestions, but I consider that a separate task.
>
> Well, I was playing around with some design ideas and found I really
> wanted to simplify and re-organize the page a bit.  So I thought I'd
> throw a few ideas out for discussion.  It's just a rough gimp mockup
> for now.  There's no actual html / css written yet.
>
> http://download.gna.org/colorscheme/etc/gtkmm.org/gtkmm-mockup.png
>
> I figured that although the website is for gtkmm, glibmm, and gnomemm,
> the main focus is really gtkmm, so that's why it's sort of
> 'highlighted' in blue in my mockup.  In addition, I'm assuming that
> the most common action for website visitors will be downloading gtkmm,
> so I have a large download button on the front page.  I also made a
> simplified header bar that will be used on all pages to replace the
> current sidebar.  The header bar has just a few broad categories
> instead of a relatively long list of really specific items that we
> currently have in the sidebar.  The idea is that some of these
> specific links might be moved off of the front page menu into a
> subpage -- I'm not exactly sure yet, these are just initial thoughts.
>
> I tried to keep the basic color scheme, but it's slightly modified
> (i.e. there's a new light blue and a light brown / tan), and the
> 'logo' is not used at all in the mockup.  I just couldn't find a good
> place to fit it in.  If people want to keep it though, I can try to
> find some way to use it. I also incorporated a few enlarged
> tango-style icons into the design, though I'm not completely sure
> about those yet...  The idea is that the big icon in the upper-right
> will be different depending on what page of the website you're on.
> For example, the download page might look something like this:
>
> http://download.gna.org/colorscheme/etc/gtkmm.org/gtkmm-mockup-downloads.png
>
> So I'm hoping to get some feedback.  Feel free to be as critical as
> you want, the more specific the better.  I won't start implementing
> anything until there appears to be at least a rough consensus.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonner
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