Lovely to see fresh talent and energy applied to a long-stalled issue. :) I think Giovanni's proposal has a strong, simple page structure, and it does a good job of IA for our varied audience. Putting on my BDesignerFL hat, let's use that as a starting point.
Let's set aside the issue of restyling docs for now; we can't run in all directions at once. Homepage Structure =============== News ~~~~ The major element elided from the proposal is some display of news. The current homepage shows the most recent four entries; I think one is sufficient for the homepage, but it does need to be somewhere on the page. Header nav ~~~~~~~~ There is no header nav in the proposal. I'd like to have some minimal list of primary nav links, like the ones at the top-left of the page fat-footer. On the homepage, they can appear very de-emphasized, I like the spare look of the masthead and I don't want to break that by boxing it in with a visual bar from above. Header actions ~~~~~~~~~~~ While I like the "quick start" mechanic, those buttons require some love: * There's no obvious "get django" or "download" call-to-action. "Quick start" is good but we're burying the download information in there. * The quick start drawer doesn't make mention of the other ways you can get Django, for example downloading a tarball or a link to github. * There's no quick display of our most recent released version. It belongs somewhere at the level of these buttons. My proposal is a button layout like: [ Get Django 1.4 v ] [ Quick Start v ] [ Documentation ] The get-django button can show a drawer like quick start, but show the three common routes (pip, tarball, github) and supply a link to a page with more details if need be. Who's Using Django ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't know if we'll have case studies. If not, an attractive display of some logos wouldn't go badly. If we do, then we can fade out the other logos upon click and show a bit of teaser text about the company with a link to "read more…" Footer ~~~~~ I like the structure. Need to give some thought to the six large elements and make sure they're the best choices for what to show there. Responsive Structure ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A requirement for the new dp.com is that it be responsive or adaptive. I'm not going to get hung up on the technicalities—something which looks and works well on a variety of common screen geometries. The proposed page layout would linearize well for smaller screens, which is excellent. Non-homepage templates =================== I'm not sure what other pages we have in our current site, ignoring trac for now. I suspect that we'll need one or two templates for non-home pages. Look & Graphic Design ================= I don't want to get off course with the IA work. Color and design stuff can wait until we're feeling that the structure is mostly baked. If you have ideas and you want to get them down, I'd recommend you make something like style tiles (http://styletil.es/). Thanks all for your brains on this matter. I am excited to see this underway, and I can't wait to see what comes next. :) -I -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
