@Ian, Done. Let me know what you think.
I've pushed the changes up so that people can take a swing at them. I made the reflection pure CSS so that the picture can easily be swapped out. This goes without saying but all of these changes can be tweaked or removed if people are in disagreement with them. My ambition is to make the front page appealing and represent our team so if there's something that's too much or not tasteful don't hesitate to bring it up or submit a pull request to the lmms.io project on GitHub. -Tres - [email protected] On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Ian Sannar <[email protected]> wrote: > Another suggestion (And I would be glad to do this) is to redo the > description of the product on the main page to make it appear much more > professional and appealing to potential customers. As of now, it just says > what it can do. > Rather than "You can make beats" or similar statements that have appeared > on the LMMS site in the past, a better way to say that would be "Making > groovy beats has never been easier for free." > If you get the idea. :) > Again, I would be glad to do this. > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Tres Finocchiaro < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the feedback. I'll move forward with it. >> >> Since Vesa went into specifics, I'll respond to his items directly. >> >> - align the text/buttons vertically, make sure the top/bottom margins are >>> even >>> >> That will likely increase the height of the banner. Do you think it's ok >> if it gets taller? >> >> >>> - also make sure left/right margins are even >>> >> That should be possible at full screen resolution but due to the overflow >> nature of the content on smaller screens, some window dimensions won't be >> even. >> >> >>> - add some space between the buttons & text, maybe also: move the sub-title >>> closer to the title than the buttons >>> >> It's currently sitting at it's natural spacing between a heading and a >> paragraph element. I will overwrite the default style and try that out. >> >> >>> - improve the background: too blurry, shows some aliasing >>> >> That was actually intentional because it's a tiled JPG and weighs in at a >> very small file size but point taken. It will be easily replaceable via >> github once the commit is in. >> >> >>> - possibly make the button backgrounds a bit darker, and maybe add a *very* >>> slight gradient to them (vertical gradient, light top-dark bottom) >>> >> This is something I hadn't brought up yet, but we're currently working >> with a vanilla bootstrap theme so our buttons currently look like the rest >> of the world. I'd be happy to override these colors with ones we've chosen >> that better personalize the page. Would you propose we do it site-wide, or >> a one-off use for the jumbotron only? >> >> >>> - improve the reflection effect on the image, have it fade out more >>> gradually, >>> currently looks like the reflection is cut in half >> >> Same height considerations as the button recommendations. It's a >> transparent PNG so it can easily be replaced. >> >> >> >> >> - [email protected] >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Vesa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 08/13/2014 12:35 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: >>> > A design mock-up I'm working with. Opinions welcome. >>> >>> Looks cool, couple of things I'd do: >>> >>> - align the text/buttons vertically, make sure the top/bottom margins >>> are even >>> - also make sure left/right margins are even >>> - add some space between the buttons & text, maybe also: move the >>> sub-title closer to the title than the buttons >>> - improve the background: too blurry, shows some aliasing >>> - possibly make the button backgrounds a bit darker, and maybe add a >>> *very* slight gradient to them (vertical gradient, light top-dark bottom) >>> - improve the reflection effect on the image, have it fade out more >>> gradually, currently looks like the reflection is cut in half >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LMMS-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LMMS-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel >> >> >
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