I quite like what I see. I'm in IRC now if you'd like to toss some ideas around.
As skippy says, the design of hp.o is definitely a contentious issue, but I don't think that should prevent us from doing much-needed improvement. I am very excited about your enthusiasm to port the design over to the forums and vanilla. I've often felt the lack of consistency was detrimental, but frankly don't want the pain of dealing with MediaWiki. Perhaps we could also port said design to Trac or whatever-new-bug- solution-we-adopt? As skippy said, transparency is important in this situation. If you're willing, I think working together in IRC would be beneficial, with periodic reports back to -dev. Thanks, ~Arthus (Morgante Pell) On May 22, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Scott Merrill wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Alex Hempton-Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was playing with some ideas last night on the train, here's the >> current >> draft: http://is.gd/Cl4r, any suggestions on the design would be >> great. >> Current feedback is that the layout is good, but it may seem to >> dark a >> colour scheme. I'll be creating a port of the final theme for >> MediaWiki, to >> give the site a more cohesive look and feel. > > At first blush, I like what I see. But the website design has > sometimes been hotly contested. It seems to be one of those things > about which everyone has a strong opinion. > > Rather than work in a vacuum on the layout and navigation, I'd rather > see a public discussion about the ways in which the website is > intended to serve visitors. What information is most important? What > kind of navigation do we want to have? What examples of good sites can > we look to for prior art? > > As an example, I was just yesterday looking at the Ubuntu website, > trying to find release notes for the 9.04 release. I looked at the > Feature Tour, which I'd never bothered to visit before, and liked it. > I think we'd do well with something like that. > I finally did find the release notes, after much searching. It was > disappointing, and not entirely what I had wanted in terms of content. > > Bear in mind also that we have some protean plans for ways to make the > website more engaging to the community. We'd like to encourage > visitors to create accounts, and to have mechanisms to reward > participation. Efforts toward this have fallen by the wayside of late, > but the list archives should provide some illumination on the concept. > > Cheers, > Scott > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
