Hello and a Happy and Producive New Year to Everyone, This should catch me up on all my email all at once (whew!) The clips below span several lists, but I think the relevant parties are all subscribed here.
And even something new to post, finally! > ":murb: [maarten brouwers]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [website-dev] Homepage Redesign > > You are talking here about the newly proposed why page, right? I think > again that you should ask the marketing folks. Still, if that new page > does not feature the same heading, I would introduce some step in > between. Not directly from the main page... I made a Why page mockup in the new home page style, along with a few 'finishing touches' type home page ideas. Content was pasted from the current Why page, changed here and there to make the text blocks look more even 8^) My little buddy the seagull is back (I can't look him in the eye and pull the trigger, yet!), along with icon-curve-based tab images, a much lighter footer (again taken from the current one). I also brightened up the blue in the orb icons a bit, along with using "OOo Blue" for links, etc. to help keep the logo from looking isolated. Verdana is the Head/Subhead font, Georgia for body text. I've uploaded a thumbnail and a description to the wiki, the full size and source linka are there as well. Wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/Proposals#Action_statement_based Full Size: http://fission1.free-web-hosting.biz/OOo_Web/why/Randy_Minimalist_Why.html PSD Source: http://fission1.free-web-hosting.biz/OOo_Web/why/Randy_Minimalist_Why.psd All the content is taken from the current Why page. It would be nice to see which way their new design is/was headed... Anybody know who's doing that? Or Where? I think I will also dig up some other random interior pages and do new-style versions of them to see what they might look like and for uniformity's sake. > "Ivan M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [art] Status of homepage redesign > > Hi Maarten, > I've made an update - the blue navbar is there, as are tabs - the CSS > is there, now it's just the images that need to be customized - anyone > got any ideas on what would make good tabs? I added some tab images to the "Why" mockup based on the icon curve. > Onto fonts, I think Verdana would be better than Bitstream Vera, I like "Verdana, sans-serif" too because nearly everybody has Verdana, and I've also started using "Georgia Regular, serif" as body text because it's supposedly Verdana's serif-ed cousin. I'm will also be looking at some other open source fonts, trying different things, v3 logo things... 8^) also from "Ivan M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [art] Status of homepage redesign > Hi Randy, > > I like the idea of a seagull appearing in the design - but maybe a > vector-art seagull would be better than a photo gull because it might > stand out too much on its own. I felt the header needed to be tied together with something, so the monotone gull is lighter and soaring in the header now. See also the stay-of-execution plea above 8^) > One issue with the current direction of the design is that it's unbalanced > - the left portion of the screen contains most of the content, while the > right side is mostly whitespace Maybe instead of the sliding accordian effect we could make neccessary info appear in a box on the right-hand side(?) > I think a lighter footer would fit in better I changed this too, it's basically the current footer toned down (quite) a bit. > "Kay Schenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [website-dev] Homepage Redesign > > In regards to Filip's comment on more graphic elements...well I rather > like this very simplistic, soothing, uncluttered design. *IF* we add > more graphics, I would keep them VERY small and either color-coordinated > with this design template, or all one complementary color. I think the > addition of a LOT of color would detract from the nice design. I think the above-mentioned monotone seagull fits with this, I also think OOo Blue should be carried down through the rest of the page (links dividers, etc) very, very sparingly, to unify the whole color scheme.... That about does it. Good to be be working with you all again this year! -Randy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
