On 11/17/2012 12:14 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to propose that maybe now that we have some extra cash
thanks to our gold sponsor that it might be good to spend at little bit
on a main website design. I think $1000 would get a pretty nice home
page and IMO it is well worth the money. Most designs on 99designes[0]
are around $700 and look quite good.
The main page page of a project makes all the difference when it comes
to the impression it leaves on users and this is one thing I think it is
worth spending a little money on to get a professional job done.
Thoughts.
Hi Nathan,
I agree that as a project it is great to have a nice website layout.
But my experience with a lot of designers like the ones from 99designes
is that they can create a really nice looking frontpage, but often only
from scratch, and only with their own tools and scripts.
While in my opinion we should have a relatively simple website design
(looking at Google stuff) which we can reuse in all our web/html/html stuff.
So not only a nice looking frontpage, But also:
- created using the templating system of Sphinx (because we want to have
this as a localisation framework)
- created with OR behaving like the bootstrap framework: responsive
design (both on desktop and phone looking nice) (and we can use the
relatively simple generated html also into QGIS itself (clicking help in
a certain dialog just shows a part of the docs into a popup).
- simple simple simple flat structure, so you always now where you are
in the simple simple hierarchy
- having a good index OR good search engine OR google searchable is in
my opnion more important than a frontpage overloaded with links to all
functional corners of website and docs
Concluding: it is fine to spent some money on someone who has clear
ideas on usability and webdesign, but please let it be one who at least
is able to use our framework and preferably can implement his/her ideas
him/herself in our framework (because it think that is our main problem...)
Regards,
Richard
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