Hi--
I changed the subject of this thread to make it more representative of
what we're discussing currently.
:murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote:
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).
Maarten--
I don't understand what you mean here really. Time for an illustration?
Re Christian's mockup at
http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/cloph/frontpage.html
hmmm...I like this idea. It's very straightforward. It's rendering very
oddly in my browser. But I know we need to decide on concept first and
fix the issues later.
I personally like the idea of keeping the seagull *someplace* ( some
seagull). Maybe we could do something with using an image BEHIND
Christian's center text description. Or ???. A graphic or photo is
needed to keep things on the lighter side I think.
I do believe however that 'consumer' oriented office suite
products should get a bit more attention...
I like what Christian's done in this regard.
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.
Maybe just mentioning *what* the individual components are in the text
description would be enough to get folks actually clicking on "the
office suite" link where they would get more in depth information?
I really think this is a good start that covers a lot of bases.
Good job!
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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but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
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