Eben Eliason wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > >> Hi Josh, >> >> I'm wondering how we can move forward on this. I see two possibilities: >> >> - keep insisting to the Design team to give feedback on your mockups >> and reach an agreement with them after a number if iterations. >> > > Christian and I both gave some feedback on what must have been another > thread. I think we should go through a few iterations if we could, to > bring the wireframe of sorts into a fleshed out design consistent with > the Sugar Labs web presence. A few suggestions were: use an official > Sugar Labs logo and colors; use a solid white background; scratch the > gradients (which aren't part of our visual language); likewise no > bevels; and perhaps a design for the content areas that doesn't feel > quite as "enclosed". > > We should also discuss a bit the ways we want the site to work. I > know that Josh has been designing to an XO-sized display, but there > are of course ways to make the page scalable as well, which we might > consider.
Yeah, we could make the site a percentage based-width, with a max/min-width like the mozilla guys do it, or set the width with ems to have a truly scalable site (which I think is a very good option). The XO actually has a fairly decent resolution, so I don't think it would hurt anyone else's browsing experience to just have a fixed width. Regards, Josh > Also, we should talk about the way we want to expose the > activities. One approach is shown in the mockup—a single featured > activity—but I would actually lean toward something that looks a lot > like the activities page on the static portion of the site, with an > array of activities with icons and brief one-line descriptions in a > grid, so that it's easy to jump into any of a number of recently added > activities right from the home page.I actually think the static activities > page might be a good one to > build out from in terms of a design, adding components such as search > fields, category menus, etc. I'd be happy to find some time to > iterate on the proposed design add my thoughts into this design space > over the next week or so. Perhaps Christian will have insight as > well. > > - Eben > > > >> - implement your design in activities-devel.sugarlabs.org and ask the >> community for opinions before applying those changes to production. >> >> AFAIK, you will only need to modify two files in order to customize >> the look of the site: >> >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/css/sugar.css >> >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/img/sprite.png >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:10, ,Josh williams <joshcwilli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I'm working on the design of sugar labs add-ons with Mick Weiss. >>> I've created a mock up at http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design >>> but I've haven't been able to contact anyone on the design team as of >>> yet. I would also like to volunteer some of my time for other projects. >>> I'm primarily a front-end designer with XHTML/CSS JavaScript skills, but >>> I also know some PHP/MySQL and have a background in Linux. I also enjoy >>> creating icons, so if there are any activities developers that need >>> icons please contact me. My portfolio is over at http://tucsonlabs.com . >>> >>> If you're a member of the design team or have some use for my skills, >>> please let me know. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Josh >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel