On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:16 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi all,
A bit ago, Robert Lihm and Andreas Demmer put together a new design for the openSUSE Web page. We'd like to get some comments on this redesign *now* while it's in the design phase, as opposed to a bunch of commentary *after* it's deployed. :-) (Or, to put it another way, "speak now...")
The new design is here:
http://webtest.opensuse.org/en/
Some of the text is just placeholder text, so there's no need to worry right now about the content on the page (unless you have a desire to pitch in with that) -- but we do need some thought about the design.
Two good comments made during the meeting in IRC:
* The text links at the bottom (Get Software ... Wiki ... Build Service) should be up top rather than at the bottom. * It's necessary to scroll to get to a lot of the content. I don't think this is entirely avoidable, but maybe it'd be possible to minimize this?
I'm not a designer, but I'm wondering if it might make better use of space to include the search bar in the grey box on the page?
Other thoughts?
Overall, I'm greatly impressed with this design. Andreas and Robert - looks great!
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager
Some of us chatted after the meeting with Andreas and discussed a few points.
* To increase accessibility to page and basically send out a "We care" message, Andreas will add an option to switch to high-contrast view.
* Though I didn't get into this discussion, I think it was generally agreed that the language option should be placed at the top of the page, rather than the bottom. This is not necessary as the page is displayed in the browser language. And
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Bryen wrote: that should offer to kind of 95%+ of all visitors the right language. So language at the bottom should be okay. M
Bryen
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