KG01 - See comments inline On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > Should we have a webdev list? > > We discussed using the tags [WWW] last year. > > > > > In the past we did had dedicated list for each line of the project. I > > am not sure this is something that should be discussed as the work on > > redesign start growing. > > Generally everything should be here. > KG01 - agreed > > > > > Some suggestions on the design of the site: > > - Show the product, currently there is nothing visual that relates the > > software with office productivity. > > KG01 - I think we should focus on content before we worry about styling or visual design. Please create a wiki page on cwiki to capture the proposed enhancements. > Perhaps we should setup an area in ooo-site where we can have a design > contest. Let me think about how to do that technically using the CMS. > > Kay - you should continue to with whatever efforts you have in mind with > the main page. What I am thinking about is redesigning the headers and > footers. > > > - Responsive design, mobile browsers, tablets and devices can have > > different dimensions on the site, having a RD conformant site could > > help our users browse through the site. > > Sure. I think the best strategy might be to use a common set of css tags > in device specific css files that can then be varied according to the > dimensions of the browser. > > > - Corporate theme, ViewVC, cWiki, Forum(?), Bugzilla have their own > > theme, should there be efforts to adopt the same design like the > > templates/extension/wiki site. > > The way the CMS works the templates used for the websites can be ported by > the sysadmins and teams in the Forum and mWiki. cWiki is harder. I'm sure > that SF can follow as well. > > > - Website QA - Possible broken pages due to the change in frameworks > > (from Oracle to Apache) on smaller projects. > > Download the source, discuss any errors, make the changes - JFDI. > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > > On 9/25/12, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> With our graduation coming up soon, it might be time for us to > consider > >>>> a > >>>> slight update to the user portal web site -- > >>>> http://www.openoffice.org/-- > >>>> for this momentous occasion. > >>>> > >>>> To this end, I've moved some entities to the "test" directory, and > >>> updated > >>>> robots.txt to not index this directory. > >>>> > >>>> I've wanted to fix some of the styling for a while to deal with > >>> horizontal > >>>> placement issues, but I'm sure some of you have some ideas as well. > >>>> > >>>> Maybe a wiki page would be a good idea as well to present graphic > >>> mockups of > >>>> ideas. > >>>> > KG01 - Yes, good idea. Actually, UX is setting up a virtual studio to show sketches, mockups and screen caps of ideas. > >>> > >>> Good topic to bring up. > >>> > >>> With graduation we'll have to think about changes to two websites. > >>> www.openoffice.org, of course. But also our project website, which > >>> will end up at openoffice.apache.org. The mailing lists will also > >>> update, e.g., ooo-dev@i.a.o --> d...@openoffice.apache.org. Our > >>> subversion tree changes as well. Ditto for Apache dist directory. > >>> > >>> So that leads to several sets of website changes: > >>> > >>> 1) Any rebranding we need/want to do, e.g. remove "incubator" > >>> disclaimer and references. There was talk at one point about > >>> refreshing the logo design at this time as well. > KG01 - Short term re-branding could remove the "incubation" reference. More broadly, we should style the site to reflect any updates to our branding. > >>> > >>> 2) Updating URL's, email list address, SVN and dist directory > >>> references. There may be others. This is pretty much a search & > >>> replace operation. > >>> > >>> 3) Any work to "freshen" the website UI. IMHO it is always a good > >>> time to improve the website ;-) > KG01 - Long term UI refresh, should be associated with any enhancement to our brand moving foward. 4.0 presents an opportunity to launch such a re-branding. KG01 - Who can lead a re-branding effort? Marketing? PMC? Thoughts? >>> >>> >>> I wonder if it would be a good time to rethink the default font on the >>> website. Look at our plain text versus Mozilla's website, which uses >>> OpenSans (Apache 2.0 License): >>> >>> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ >>> >>> http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans >>> KG01 - Agree, nice font. Very legible onscreen. >>> To me this is much more legible than our current font (Liberation?) >>> >> >> I know we'll have quite a number of references to change after we graduate, >> and I thought we were planning on using the area where we have the Apache >> incubator icon for something else but I'd need to go look that up. >> >> re: fonts --- I'll need to investigate this. I didn't realize we had much >> of anything specified. hmmmm.... >> >> >> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -Rob >>> >>>> So...get your creative juices flowing and let's see what we can do. >>>> -- >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> MzK >>>> >>>> "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back >>>> doesn't mean the circus has left town." >>>> -- George Carlin >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back >> doesn't mean the circus has left town." >> -- George Carlin >> > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > http://es.openoffice.org
