Hey guys & gals, get these thoughts onto the wiki! I've added some already:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Front_Page Thanks to Steve & the CloudMade designers for giving this some energy! Regards, Tom On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:37:29 +0000, Dave Stubbs <osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk> wrote: > 2009/3/3 Celso González <ce...@mitago.net>: >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:16:21AM +0100, "Jonas Krückel (John07)" >> wrote: >>> Ian Dees schrieb: >>> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC <st...@asklater.com >>> > <mailto:st...@asklater.com>> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different >>> > front >>> > pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. >>> > There >>> > are some very quick ideas there but it's not a full picture by a >>> > long >>> > way. >>> > >>> > >>> > To get some conversation going: >>> > >>> > I really like the Fp4.jpg[1] example on the URL you gave, Steve. It's >>> > important to make the map (and thus its data) the largest GUI element >>> > on the page. The buttons along the top draw my eye up there to see >>> > what's available. I also like the "Shop" link idea. >>> > >>> > After looking at all of the examples, Fp4.jpg seems to be the one that >>> > is the simplest and most eye-catching. >>> > >>> > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Fp4.jpg >>> I also like that. Unfortunately i can´t find a link to the wiki :-) I >>> think the wiki is very important and must get a big link. >> >> Yep in fp4 Wiki is missing and we have User diaries, News and Blog. >> Without entering in >> the opengeodata blog war i think they are similar things >> >>> I also like Fp1.jpg because of the news section. I would change "Edit" >>> to "Edit Map"! >> >> I prefer fp1. >> >> Anyway I think the greatest thing of the new designs is to show the 'Map >> Legend' >> > > > You mean like when you click "Map key" on the current front page? > > That does bring up a valid point though -- the current page does not > make the map controls obvious. The classic one is when you tell > someone the front page has multiple styles. The little + sign is just > ignored by most people (until you've encountered enough OL sites that > use it... then you just can't help but investigate what layers they're > hiding). > > Some of those deigns go with the drop down approach for layer > selection... I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say > "Mapnik".. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered > using Mapnik anyway :-) > I can't imagine what a newbie will think a Mapnik is. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
