Re: New design Live Gnome



Hello Christy,

Unfortunately, I did not receive the mockup. I saw it now, and it is really fine for me if I am constructing this one; still , it is a choice we all need to agree on. On the other side, I would really like to include a little bit more elements if possible. The website should be practical as I understood, so maybe one more block of elements will be appropriate.

We may discuss on the #marketing channel, whenever you have time.

Thanks,
Elena


On 06/10/2012 03:37 AM, Christy Eller wrote:
Elena-

Did you get the quick mockup that Andreas did yesterday? He and I discussed the layout and navigation yesterday on IRC. We want to keep it very simple. 

http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/wikilayout.png   or an svg here, which would be editable in inkscape:

There were a few changes we talked about making to this mockup. One was to add Sitemap to the top nav. Also, for styling, add the html bg file that I sent you recently (not the watercolor bg), add the footer called community.png that I'm attaching here, and make a new logo for live.gnome.org. I have some ideas for the logo if you need help.

Again, the main thing we are trying to get out of this is simplicity, ease of use, and the main style elements of wgo- meaning header, footer & background. If you try to make too many changes from the current theme in moin moin, I think it is going to get very complex once you start the implementation.  It primarily needs to be clean and useful. Wikis are generally styled very simply, because they are all about storing content, rather than marketing:

If you have any questions, or when you have an example, please email Andreas or me- or look for us on IRC. It seems like it's been very difficult for us to meet up at the same time, so let's set up an IRC meeting for Monday if possible. I really appreciate your efforts!

Thank you for your work-
Christy

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Brett Legree <brett legree gmail com> wrote:
Elena,

Glad to lend a hand - certainly, please do take them as suggestions,
since I am not a designer in any way shape or form!

However, I do my best as a UI enthusiast and a cheerleader for people
who *can* design - thanks again,

-Brett

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Elena Petrevska
<elenapetrevska77 gmail com> wrote:
> Brett, at first, thanks for the encouragement and for the contribution. I
> will comment as I go through the mail.
>
> On 06/09/2012 07:53 PM, Brett Legree wrote:
>
> Good day Elena,
>
> Just a few more ideas to add to the mix, and sort of build on what Sri
> suggested.
>
> I attached a GIMP-edited version of your original image (should I
> instead be posting a link to an online site for this? Not sure of the
> protocol for the mailing list, if I should please let me know).
>
> I actually like the changes a lot. It is not a problem in both ways, you are
> fine with this method.
>
> As I am new, I am trying to get a feel for the purpose of the page, so
> I did a bit of cut & paste to try and group things together or make
> things flow a bit. I put Search up at the top right so it is above the
> fold by default, for new and more experienced users, and I suggested
> moving the User Login part a bit lower in the hierarchy (since someone
> with a login would be familiar with the page).
>
> You really did some very useful changes. thanks !
>
> I thought it was okay to have Join GNOME at the top (not sure where
> the link goes - to another page with all of them listed, or to the
> bottom of the page where they are spread out?) as well as at the
> bottom, as it would seem logical we want people to join the various
> projects.
>
> Or, we could try to have only one link to each topic, to simplify
> things for both users and coders (just something I picked up in my
> studies of UI/UX, I believe there are 6 or 7 ways to print a document
> in Microsoft Word, for instance, via shortcut keys, icons etc., some
> of them do the same thing, and some of them do not work exactly the
> same way).
>
> We will talk about this on the mailing list and I will (in the mean time)
> take care of implementing them in a design.
>
> You could experiment with that spread out list of links to the
> different Teams, perhaps with justified/non-justified arrangement of
> the text, alphabetical ordering maybe, or perhaps some kind of logical
> arrangement based on what is most important to the project as a whole
> (though I think they are all important - hence the suggestion for
> alphabetical ordering).
>
> I will certainly try it.
>
> Anyway, just some suggestions of course and apologies for hacking your
> image apart (!) my GIMP-fu is still not as strong as it could be, so
> the boxes in my edited copy do not always line up the way they could
> or might.
>
> Hope it helps in any case - keep up the good work - Brett
>
> It was very helpful Brett, thanks again !
> Elena




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