Hi, the latest FPR (Front page redesign ;-)) ) thread is starting to get complex, so with new proposals (stage 2), I am starting a new thread. Hope it's OK for you - this way it will definitely be easier for me to assign your comments to the correct proposal(s). For this very reason, I would like to separate threads concerning the Home page and the Splash screen, too.
This is about the homepage. Enough "disclaiming" ;), here are two new proposals: 1. http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/home.html 2. http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/home_jdd.html The old (aka yesterday's) proposal is now located at http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/stage_1/home.html Comments: on 1.) - changed the width of the columns - the left column is less wide now (requested by jdd - added/changed the links in "Getting openSUSE" (requested by houghi) - replaced "Other languages (box)" with "Article of the Month" (requested by jdd, darix and houghi) - added the [[openSUSE:Browse]] link to the left nav (called it "Sitemap", not sure if this is fortunate) - re-arranged the links in the topnav (requested by houghi) and added padding to the left (requested by peter) on 2.) - contains all the changes of 1.) plus jdd's proposal not to split the content related navigation between top and left nav: * moved the "Participation" links from top nav to left nav. Therefore had to create another section (Participate), otherwise the "openSUSE" link list would be too long * moved the "Personal" links into the top nav * moved the page headline and content 1.2em up ;-)) Things I did not implement, because ... - removing the Wiki Toolbox from the left nav: This was implemented when we started openSUSE way back last year. The toolbox only showed up when a user was logged in. We changed it to be visible all the time on public demand - moving interwiki links to some less prominent place I am against it because of two reasons: * when reading an article on the English openSUSE web, a user can easily see wether this article is available in his/her language or not. So a user can quickly switch the language on a certain article without having to search/scroll for the language links * almost the same goes for translators/would be translators. With the current position it's easier to see whether an article needs to be translated or not What's more - with the current labeling ("In other languages") it is very clear which purpose this set of links serves, so I do not see that it confuses the user (same goes for the Wiki toolbox) - removed the green headline boxes in the center content I really liked them (copied from wikipedia), IMHO they add a bit of eye candy to the page. Apart from that, they are only used as headlines of special topics rather than headlines of linklists. - green border around left menu Technically not possible with the current layout. We would have to give up the end-to-end green bar (as it is now on en.opensuse.org). Apart from that, it does not look good -IMHO. - changed font sizes Currently all font related styles are wikipedia (monobook) default. I'd like to stick with them. If you think different, let me know. A note on the content: I just took what I thought was reasonable. I f you would like to see other topics, different wording, etc., tell me. BTW: (A) new proposal(s) for the splash screen will follow, stay tuned ;) -- Regards Frank Frank Sundermeyer, SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-7417755; http://www.novell.com/ "Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane" Dogbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
