On 09/25/2012 09:55 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote:
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
yes, no problem with this...
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.
OK. I will do that. I wanted to see what others thought.
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.
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MzK
"Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back
doesn't mean the circus has left town."
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Alexandro Colorado
PPMC Apache OpenOffice
http://es.openoffice.org
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