[kdewebdev-site] New Design

[Bill Chmura]

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I do like the design, its very mac'ish.  And if anyone knows pretty things its 
the mac people.

My only comments on it are thus:

* There is less space for information than I would have liked to see...  
Although there is something to be said for sparsity in a page

* I liked the logo on the left, more than centered (Sorry David), it left more 
vertical screen area and I think Americo (sorry about the non-accented e) 
could fit it to have 6 buttons (although some of the names are long).  

* I kind of like the idea of having FAQs and Screenshots at this level.  We 
could have repesentative screenshots (maybe 4 per item) with links to the 
individual tool screenshot...  Similar concepts with the faq section except 
more generic faq entries.

? Will the screen widen to fill available screen area?  Or are we going to fix 
it somewhere.

* The only design element I am not 100% crazy about is the buttons.  They 
almost look like they were generated with netobjects or something like that.  

Nice work!



On Monday 03 May 2004 10:40 pm, David Joham wrote:
> On Monday 03 May 2004 12:51 pm, Américo C. Santos Neto wrote:
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > I'm sending two files here, one of them is a first draft of the KDEwebDev
> > site design and the other one is some ideas I had earlier to the Quanta
> > logo. Both are raw studies, let's see what do you think...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Américo
>
> Wow! That's all I can say. Américo, you just about hit the nail on the head
> for the look of the portal page I was going for. Well done!
>
> I gimped it up a little to see what it would look like with a couple of
> small changes. In the area to the right that was blank, I put some news
> items. On the top, I put the kdewebdev.org logo in the center above a few
> more logos. I'm thinking each of these logos would be a logo for one of the
> tools in the suite. Forgive the awful gimping, but it's the best I could do
> in a short amount of time.
>
> I also added a couple of links that I think we need to the navigation. My
> gut tells me we probably want to add a news link that has all of the news
> items on one page, but I didn't do that yet. I also assume that the block
> on the right where I put the news would go away unless the user was on the
> home page. Is that what you had in mind as well?
>
>
> I'm also forwarding an attachment that Dave Reddish sent to me today. It's
> a combination of some of Chris' ideas with some things we dreamed up this
> weekend. Thanks Dave!
>
>
> What do people here think? To be honest, I'm *very* happy with Américo's
> mockup and would like to proceed down that path. Américo, I'm curious what
> you have in mind for the look of the tool sites as well.
>
>
> David

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