Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Runa Agate Sandvik
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:10:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Merely lists which web pages are in scope -- but nothing of the audience. It also hand waves at the usual goodies: unified, accessible, no javascript or flash, etc. There is nothing concrete, or anything of any real

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:29:47 +0200, Runa Agate Sandvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:10:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Merely lists which web pages are in scope -- but nothing of the audience. It also hand waves at the usual goodies: unified, accessible, no

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-26 00:10]: So, since my telepathy powers are obviously on the blink, can you tell me what the goals of the rewrite (apart from the 3 foot buzzwords of accessibility, browser independence, restrict javascript) are? Ah, the usual

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-26 08:14]: If accessibility is a goal, how are you certain we are not meeting it? The web site has no javascript I can discern, it is localized in my language, it uses no flash, it is accessible y braille terminals. Have we not already

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-21 18:35]: For example, I really dislike that when I hit the mailing list archive link, instead of being shown the archives based on list/year/month directly, I am asked whether I want a developer mailing list or a user list. The

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:03:20 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-26 08:14]: If accessibility is a goal, how are you certain we are not meeting it? The web site has no javascript I can discern, it is localized in my language, it uses no

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:51:26 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-26 00:10]: So, since my telepathy powers are obviously on the blink, can you tell me what the goals of the rewrite (apart from the 3 foot buzzwords of accessibility,

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:25:40 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-21 18:35]: For example, I really dislike that when I hit the mailing list archive link, instead of being shown the archives based on list/year/month directly, I am asked

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Merely lists which web pages are in scope -- but nothing of the audience. It also hand waves at the usual goodies: unified, accessible, no javascript or flash, etc. There is nothing concrete, or anything of any real substance here, when it

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:00:53 +0200, Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As far as I am concerned, looking prettier is exactly what I'd like to be achieved, nothing more. Please consider the layout change page a way to achieve a unified, more appealing website. I do not believe there

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Ah. If this is just about adding bling, and not about things like removing security advisories from the top page to help lambda users, then my interest in this efforts fade. Please ignore the noise, then. I would be interested in a

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-25 Thread Runa Agate Sandvik
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM +0100, James Herrington wrote: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? I have created a wiki page[1] where everyone can add their proposals :) Does anyone have a good idea on what to do about comments for

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:33:49 +0200, Runa Agate Sandvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM +0100, James Herrington wrote: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? I have created a wiki page[1] where everyone can

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-25 Thread Runa Agate Sandvik
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:35:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Starting to come up with mockups before we have goals/audience/requirements in place seems ... wrong, somehow. I had a chat with Sam Hocevar right after I created LayoutProposal and a few minutes later we had

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:02:22 +0200, Runa Agate Sandvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:35:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Starting to come up with mockups before we have goals/audience/requirements in place seems ... wrong, somehow. I had a chat with Sam Hocevar

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:25:06 +0100, James Herrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I agree, i think the structure of navigation definitely needs to be improved however i don't think i'm the person to do it! It's not that i wouldnt like to but more i don't know the existing website structure well

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi James! You wrote: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! I like you design a lot! It's nice and crisp and still rather down to earth. I see some minor details

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* James Herrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-18 21:11]: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ It looks clean, but from a closer look there are many shortcomings when you try to get a better feeling

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Wojciech Zareba
Simon Paillard napisal(a): On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM +0100, James Herrington wrote: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! - I find there is too much grey,

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 19.04.2007 11:35 schrieb Gerfried Fuchs: * James Herrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-18 21:11]: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ It looks clean, but from a closer look there are many

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-19 12:03]: Am 19.04.2007 11:35 schrieb Gerfried Fuchs: * James Herrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-18 21:11]: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 19.04.2007 13:41 schrieb Gerfried Fuchs: * Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-19 12:03]: I'd like to propose again to start some official contest, and let a broader audience (at least the DDs) vote for the final design. The more people get to vote the better. That won't work,

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread James Herrington
Based on some of the criticisms I have made some quick changes to the design and have also made a quick mockup for the about debian page. This should show what the general content pages would look like. The links down the right hand side (related links) will be expandable so to conserve space

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread James Herrington
I've done some quick research into colour blind site design and from what i have found have been able to adapt my site designs to what a colour blind user would see. The only colour that seems to change is the pink because most of the time greys arent affected. unfortunately i couldnt change

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
James Herrington wrote: Hi all, I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! I think that the idea of the Have you got Debian 4.0 yet? question is quite nice, and could

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Venthur wrote: I'd like to propose again to start some official contest, and let a broader audience (at least the DDs) vote for the final design. The more people get to vote the better. I would like to remind people that democracy is a poor way to make technical choices in general.

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070419 22:01]: Bastian Venthur wrote: I'd like to propose again to start some official contest, and let a broader audience (at least the DDs) vote for the final design. The more people get to vote the better. I would like to remind people that democracy is

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-19 Thread MJ Ray
James Herrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone thinking of taking charge of the redesign of the debian website? I have seen a couple of posts about new designs etc but no one really seems to be managing whats going on. Is there anyone in particular i need to contact? It depends what

Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread James Herrington
Hi all, I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! Regards, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Runa Agate Sandvik
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM +0100, James Herrington wrote: http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ I like it, good job! :) But I think the debian logo could be much bigger. The image of the CD is stealing the focus. But this proves that we can have a change of colours and still make it

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
18 04 2007 о 21:11 +0100 James Herrington написав(-ла): I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! Using flags to choose language is a bad idea IMHO. Also I prefer to see

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread James Herrington
Thanks, I have made the logo larger and also removed the 'welcome to...' text. I also made the text on the menu pure black as opposed to changing the font size to make them stand out more. Is anyone thinking of taking charge of the redesign of the debian website? I have seen a couple of posts

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
James Herrington schrieb: Thanks, I have made the logo larger and also removed the 'welcome to...' text. I also made the text on the menu pure black as opposed to changing the font size to make them stand out more. I actually liked it better with the smaller logo. Looked more elegant for me :)

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Le mercredi 18 avril 2007, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov écrivit : 18 04 2007 о 21:11 +0100 James Herrington написав(-ла): I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome!

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 4/18/07, James Herrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! Hi James, This is A quality material, keep the mockups coming!

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM +0100, James Herrington wrote: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! - I find there is too much grey, that is a bit sad. IMO the

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 23:43, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: Moreover, which flag do you want to use for French language : France, Swizerland, Belgium, Quebec? /me votes for the Canadian flag for both English and French... Not to mention the flamewars we'd get if we'd dare to put a Taiwanese

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-18 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM +0100, James Herrington wrote: I've come up with a quick mockup design for the debian homepage, what does everyone think? http://james.isafreelancer.com/debian/ constructive criticism welcome! I like the cleaner look, but would like to see a page with