On 11/17/2015 03:27 PM, Jason Harrer wrote: > Hi, Aaron - > > When I indicated we needed to talk about the revised home page, I was > hoping more for of a meeting, where we can go over what we currently > have, what we still need, what kind of verbiage needs to be changed to > account for current Snowdrift lingo, where certain links need to be > pointed to, what proposed links need to be removed, etc., so we can try > and finish up the homepage and move on. > > Any chance we can get a meeting on the books for that? > > Thanks!! > > - Jason (JazzyEagle) >
I'm okay with a meeting, but it also sounds like it's just stuff where I should participate in the final design stuff too. It's gonna be a process with discussion about each bit… I'm flexible enough for a meeting, maybe Thursday or Friday would work? > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Aaron Wolf <aa...@snowdrift.coop > <mailto:aa...@snowdrift.coop>> wrote: > > So, I really want to see things pushed up to master sooner rather than > later. > > For example, we have a new design planned for the introduction, for > example, and we'll end up making that a hardcoded page in the code > rather than a wiki page… but for now, we can certainly put up a new > homepage that links to the *current* intro page, and we can just change > that link once we have the new intro page done. We should not delay the > homepage just to finish the intro page. > > Items I want to see included still and not lost during this transition: > > * Clear indication that this is a prototype, not handling money yet, > such as the "work in progress — public ALPHA" not currently > > * I think the stuff currently in the About section of the homepage can > be all moved either to the new footer or to the wiki intro page for now. > The wiki page already links to the longer about essay. I'm not sure > about the FAQ, "who we are", and press links, but I think they could all > be linked at the intro wiki page for now… > > * I'm not sure about the fund-drive video… ideally we deprecate it in > favor of a new video, but we don't have that right now. Maybe the video > and reference to the fund-drive can be moved to the donate page; but we > still need some prominent enough link to the donate page itself. > > * The "News and Activity" section needs to be addressed. We need to make > sure people are aware of activity and make that prominent enough. > > * The volunteer and get-listed stuff… well, we can have stub pages and > appropriate links, but I want to make sure the new homepage and overall > design keeps in mind how to keep call for volunteering really prominent… > I'm not sure it does that right now. > > Again, it's okay for things to be stubs and imperfect, but I'd like to > see these issues at least figured out *enough* and to get things merged > into master ASAP while we keep working. > > Cheers, > Aaron > > -- > Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > Design@lists.snowdrift.coop <mailto:Design@lists.snowdrift.coop> > https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/design > > -- Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design@lists.snowdrift.coop https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/design
