On February 1, 2015 at 6:26:27 AM, Simon (simon@simotek.net) wrote:
On 02/01/2015 08:08 PM, Rolf Riis Bjørnsen wrote:
On lø., 2015-01-31 at 22:51 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
My SUSE colleagues worked on a new landing page during the last hackweek but I am not sure where it lives in github. Source is here: https://github.com/openSUSE/www.o.o
Mockups here: https://github.com/openSUSE/www.o.o/tree/gh-pages/mockups
And there's even one version set up to run on github pages, so you can have a look at it right now here: http://opensuse.github.io/www.o.o/
Unfortunately it looks like the progress stopped about about 3 months ago. Too bad since it doesn't look like it's far from finished.
Rolf
Hi i have a bit of feedback on that site
I think it is a good start as a marketing page for people who have never used openSUSE but i think we need to look at the aim and target audience of the site. We need to remember that the website has 2 distinct target audiences, one people who have never used openSUSE or don't know what it is and two exisiting users looking for doco / forums etc remembering that this is also the default home page in firefox on new installs.
The main issue i have is how far i need to scroll to find the links to the wiki and forum hidden at the bottom in the sitemap I'll come back to this later. I also don't really like the green logo and its background color (maybe its just me I never really liked that green) but It doesn't seem to fit the branding guidelines that well (Contrast it against the branding guidelines page or any of the screenshots on the screenshots page). Which brings me to the next issue I have, the lack of a screenshots page its about the first thing I look for when I go to try new software. It would be really nice if we could auto generate a nice looking screenshots page from the wiki (maybe a second copy of the page with a different stylesheet). Or atleast a page in the same style as the landing page with a few select screen shots. The site also seems very commercial / corporate in its look and feel for a community distro, yes it has a big section on community but that doesn't really show the community.
Having said all this i thought i'd go have a look at the community to see what they do and maybe steal some ideas. The fedora website seems like a better example of what is being aimed for https://getfedora.org The first screen you see is very marketing oriented but by the time you scroll down the height of the screen you hit all the info users would be after. Mageia http://www.mageia.org/en/ has a nice looking landing page and the menu's at the top provide easy navigation for users easier then fedora, but it is lacking in describing what Mageia is to new users. Elementary seemed ok (not that impressed with a youtube video at the top) but it seemed like the first screen you view has enough info for existing users and scrolling down provided good info for new users this seems like it may be a good way to go. I also had a look at mint and sabayon because they have always had good design teams but both websites seemed pretty crowed and not that great. I'll also put out a mention to Arch https://www.archlinux.org/ , who need to worry a lot less about marketing and there site seemed very well designed for there users but i think openSUSE needs more of a marketing focus.
I think there are a couple of things that could be done, One either add some navigation links at the top or middle to make it easy for users to find what they want, or two have a "marketing page" maybe accessible from something like whatisopensuse.org and then a "user focused" page with a similar design at opensuse.org with a easy way to swap between the two. Then there's any other ideas that you fine people can come up with.
Having said all that its still better then what i could do i'm more of a UI Designer then graphical designer, coming up with a excellent website is obviously hard work by virtue of the fact that there are only 1 or 2 distro's that have one.
At the moment i don't think i'll have the time to pick up that landing page and get it to a state i'm happy with, but i'll continue to investigate the recoloring and time and family permitting hopefully i'll get somewhere in the next couple of weeks. Even if we get a new homepage the wiki and forums etc could do with the work still, hopefully, in the next hack week the work can be picked up on again.
Cheers
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We had a team some time ago from a couple of people who wanted to revamp our main page, but the effort had a few bumps so we didn’t get a new page. I thought also that Henne was working or did work on a new page that could also be used and could be tweaked to have these color mix. I personally think that doing color changes is a good thing, but we could probably do a whole new page altogether. I could design one but I honestly don’t know all the technical details of what we have now. I know I can make one in HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT. Would anyone be interested in getting some proposals? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org