Hi Christian, and all...
I suggest removing the young seagull+egg image and replace it with
something more hypermedia like... (minimum: make the image link to the
end use products page... and some link below that to developer oriented
products (since the latter are missing now on our home page, which is
seriously undervaluing the work done for making OOo a true developing
platform). I do believe however that 'consumer' oriented office suite
products should get a bit more attention...
I suggest using the area now used for the image for the end user
products, and the area below the image for development products or other
products. In this schema maybe we can use either the grown up seagull I
recently attached to
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53997 ... or some
different. I have something in mind with some OOo-suite box, together
with the grown up seagull as a link to the suite-products page (
http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html ).
Another suggestion - which was what I was thinking of in the first
place: trim down the number of end user products listed on the home page
(limit it to Writer, Calc, Impress and Base), add a vertical seperator
line , and design an attractive program icon (maybe it exists already?)
for the two major developer oriented products: the UDK and the SDK
(maybe combined as stuff for developers). The icon should really be
distinct from the program icons now used... so that it won't be
confused with the suite-products.
Well, that is my output for now... my time is short, though I really
would like to work on this some more...
g.,
Maarten
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi Bernhard, *,
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:00:55AM +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Kay Schenk schrieb:
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
[...]
I'd prefer one button - approx. the size of the current buttons - maybe
instead of the seagull image two additional buttons:
* one for the OOo-Office-suite products
* one for the "developer"-products
[...]
If anybody has an idea on how to graphically represent these two
categories, I'll try to make a mockup..
I thought of a desk for the Suite products-button and maybe gears or
bricks for the developer-button.
Comments?
Again, I like this idea but I am not graphically inclined. Would it be
too cutesy to have seagull icons engaged in them? No good ideas from me
though.
Please ask at the art project ([email protected]) if there is
someone interested in designing such icons.
Since the urge to come up with something better is bigger when a mediocre
or bad solution exists already, I did a quick mockup with two buttons :-)
http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/cloph/frontpage.html
Even if some of us are working on an update of our logo files (we'll
need "OpenOffice.org 2" instead of "OpenOffice.org 2.0" from next week
on), there are others having perhaps some free time...
Let's see whether somebody cannot ignore the itching :-)
ciao
Christian
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Maarten Brouwers (murb)
http://www.murb.nl
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