Hi all,
The work on the new homepage seems to have slowed down quite a lot.
Maybe all are tired, or most are just kidnapped by family/friends/... ;)
Both kinda apply to me, but I was just wondering, could everyone who is
still working on the redesign effort inform us and give a status update?
I'm inclined to think that we have reached somehow an agreement on the
style and approach, which is currently best visualized by murb_proposal1
(modified Ivan_minimal), see
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/Proposals#Action_statement_based
If no one has started yet, my idea proposal is as follows. We start to
work on in the website.openoffice.org/tryouts area, create a new subdir,
and start converting Ivan's design elements (see below) to HTML. Of
course we try to adhere to the standards, in our case XHTML strict (but
we don't need to be religious about it). Working in the tryouts area
gives us the chance to collaborate on fine tuning the design.
By using nonav just after the domain, we can turn off all, hence the
name, surrounding navigation that the collab system likes to impose on
all the pages it serves, try e.g.
http://website.openoffice.org/nonav/tryouts/ .
Let's try to strive for an first half of Januari launch. We'll bump in
to the issues during creating the html. Since we have still some
unresolved issues, there are a few things we shouldn't fix yet (and
should thus be easily modifiable):
- the top right menu
- as much of the text within the body (well, think in general, plain
text is better than text in bitmaps, for accessibility/space etc.)
Furthermore there is some legacy we have to adhere to for now, a table
for the body, some pages rely on the fact that tables are used. Aside
from the use of tables here, I'd like to see only tables if layout is
otherwise too complex (but almost anything is possible with div's and
css). Let's remember, OpenOffice.org is all about open standards, so
let's adhere to other standards as well, and use them properly.
<!--header, total freedom in markup -->
<table id="main" summary="body">
<tr>
<td id="navcol">
<div id="navcolumn">
<!-- contains navigation -->
</div>
</td>
<td id="midcol">
<div id="bodycol">
<!-- contains all body text-->
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- footer total freedom in markup -->
About the one click download issue: Louis informed me Sun is already
working on this. No need for us to worry about this. This leaves us more
time to deal with the page that needs to be presented when one click
fails for a user (which is one of the main concerns for those who have
raised issues, aside from the complexity)
Note that I haven't starting anything yet, I'm polling first whether I'm
not duplicating efforts here now. So please, if you are already working
on it (Ivan, Randy, Nik?) please let me/us, know soon!
g.,
Maarten
Ivan explained where to find his material:
I've attached a Fireworks-editable PNG (the format I work in), as well
as a PSD version (compressed) to the issue
(http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=84067)
Alternatively, you can download a zip file with both formats from
http://www.patentpending.co.nz/images/openoffice/minimalist.zip (137KB)
I have done the same with the Overkill2 mod, which has bits and pieces
that might be of use (like the footer mentioned above)
http://www.patentpending.co.nz/images/openoffice/overkill2mod.zip (336KB)
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