Re: foundation.gnome.org - applying foundation, blusher and mascara
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- To: Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>
- Cc: board-list gnome org, membership-committee gnome org, Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>
- Subject: Re: foundation.gnome.org - applying foundation, blusher and mascara
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:31:20 +1100
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Jeff's put the beta site online at
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/fgo/foundation.gnome.org/
So I guess now we need some feedback, and suggestions for some of the
stylesheets
So, we need:
* A header image, left or right aligned, based on the colours in our stock
palette [1]. I'm planning to do a call for header images generally (like
a logo competition only less lame), so including the f.g.o choice in
this would be fine. If anyone has immediate suggestions, please let me
know.
* Fixage for the Organization/Documentation mess. The first part of fixing
this is contact/ which Glynn started (not sure where that's at), but the
distinction between Organization and Documentation is so weak that I
think we could easily flatten out the navigation of the site. The points
of interest under Organization and Documentation are:
- Board of Directors
- Advisory Board
- Executive Director
- Foundation Charter
- Foundation By-Laws
- BoD Meeting Minutes
- Press Releases
- Mailing Lists
The first set above could easily be integrated into a single "About the
GNOME Foundation" style page, as they are all immediately interesting to
someone finding out about what the organisation is for, and how it works.
It would make sense to reorder the page for those priorities.
The second set includes stuff that can be linked from the About page, and
the sidebar, depending on importance. Press is already in the sidebar,
Mailing Lists could shift to Contact and Membership, Minutes can be
linked from Contact and About (I don't think it's of top-level importance
considering it's just a mailing list link).
That basically kills all of the extraneous navigation and complexity on
the site, and fulfills the use cases of the site that I could think of
(particularly with the front page news and news archive page we have now
thanks to Glynn).
Thoughts? Happy to make these changes in the next couple of days if no one
objects.
Thanks,
- Jeff
[1] http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/gnome-stock-colours/colours.html
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