Hey Vinzv, I completely agree with your points but I also understand where lcp is coming from and I wish it was as simple as changing the color... but we might end up starting from scratch again if a complete rebranding takes place (for example just making the logo circular will lead to changes in the navbar which may no longer work well with the rest of landing page and so on) I'm afraid we're fighting on many fronts right now, so I suggest the following: for now we can improve the website but not in a dramatic way just to make it right and without rushing it up. By waiting a couple of months, we'll have a better(although maybe not polished but still better) vision about the future of the branding/ the foundation/ the name and all of this. the outcome of these even if it was "no foundation, stay with the current brand" then that's stable enough to build on, and in the case of rebranding, we don't have to wait for everything to finish, as soon as the name settle down we can work on branding/design language and shortly after the website architecture and design. So the points are valid and we all agree that the website can use some improvement but we need to take the timeline into account. Hope you find this somewhat convenient. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 3:05 PM Vinzenz Vietzke <vinz@vinzv.de> wrote:
Hi,
in advance: can you please fix your email client's wrapping? It's really hard to read your emails.
I drew a quick mockup [1] for the sake of it, I didn't think that there are not enough links to external pages, and too many subpages there, so I consolidated most of it. I don't really see why the page shouldn't be as long as it currently is, as long as it uses the space in ways that make sense ;) (This mockup probably has the worst spacing ever anyway, but we will fix that in post)
The distributions section got shorter, you get that at the absolute top, while letting the software-o-o explain tw and leap in more detail instead.
Tools are represented in categories, so we can explain how they fit into overall openSUSE goals, while staying relatively short and concise.
News are just one (latest) article sourced from news-o-o, it also links to news-o-o, in case you want to see more news.
Some explanation about who openSUSE Community is, that will require some more links than just events, but it's a good start on having people understand that we aren't that scary (hopefully ;)
Contributions, well, it will point to the site that Imad Aldoj is making, as well as subpage about hardware donations, it still requires some more contents, but will probably be a little easier to navigate.
Hm, that whole story is a bit frustrating to be honest.
I haven't seen the mockups yet you mentioned earlier in this thread. So I had to start somewhere out of the blue which is quite pointless when there are things around being already half finished.
But now you're coming around the corner with a 90% copy of the current landing page. All in all you gave it different fonts and made the colours more eye burning but kept the unclear overall structure.
I also feel, this is probably the worst time to be making this, we will need to remake the page after logo changes, after colour changes, after name changes, after foundation happens anyway, which is being discussed right now. Maybe we should wait?
Wait until when? Settling the foundation alone will take up to 6 months. But even leaving it out there's still not a single date or time span for logo and renaming around at all. Which means it will take 2-3 months at minimum until there is any final decision in sight.
That aside: changing color codes and switching logos is no rocket science.
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