On 28.08.2008, at 15:51, Bryen wrote:

Hey, where'd the page go? I was looking at it briefly earlier and wanted to go back into it just now to give some feedback, and there's a 404. I didn't know the open comments period was so short. :-)

We changed few things and get into trouble with the sync-mechanism of the server. The page will be available again soon. So long you can take a look on a screenshots I even uploaded to the wiki: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/8/8f/OpenSUSE.org_FrontpageFF3.png Thank you for the hint! Cheers, Robert

Bryen

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 13:57 +0200, Robert Lihm wrote:

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Hey!

During Hackweek 3 Andreas Demmer and I made a new frontpage for opensuse.org, which will replace the 3-Box-Page we currently have on http://www.opensuse.org .

The goals of the new page are:

* pickup the visitor at the front-door * offer more information about the openSUSE-Project on a centralised page (more; not to much, many, etc., just a overview!) * stay conform with the openSUSE.org screen-design * make it easy for newcomers to dig into the openSUSE-Univers.

About the page-design:

The content is always placed in two columns (1/3 to 2/3) and the page is divided into two halves. In the top is the eye-candy logo with a short description (we are still looking for a better/shorter text) of the openSUSE project and the good old three main sections: software, wiki, build service. Links to all other o.o-pages are offert at the bottom of the page as hotwords, so they can be easily found with the filter in your browser or by scrolling ;-) The search bar above the the categories is not fully implemented jet. We plan a selection box (dropdown) in front of the input-field where you can select the section which should be searched (e.g. like Firefox search in the top/right corner). The placement of the search box is carefully chosen. It has a optical connection to the three sections but there is enough white-space between the search and the section-chunk to display that they are not siblings. It's in the upper-right where the most people look for a search (it's in these area on all o.o-pages).

The lower part of the page contains, in the bigger column, informations like upcoming events, etc. ... what ever is hot :-) The smaler column contains the last 5 headlines from news.o.o (updates every hour), help informations and a link to shop.o.o. We made a small admin interface to change the content without the code- hacking and deploying dance.

A localisation is implemented, too. But not deployed now.

You can check out the draft at http://www.suse.de/~rlihm/index.shtml.

We are looking forward to hear your opinions and suggestions.

Best, Robert

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