[kdewebdev-site] redesign of the quanta web site

[Andras Mantia]

Hi Carlos and the others,

 while I agree in some part that the site probably could look nicer and
your screenshot is quite good, the only problem would be arised by the
need to put that link. This is the reason why I CC this mail to Eric
Laffoon, who is the "heart" of Quanta in the sense, that without his
money and dedication the development of the application and the website
(including hosting) would not be possible. As you might see the ONLY link
to a commercial site is the link to his company, kittyhooch.com, which
actively (I mean monthly) contributes to the development of the
application.
 Personally I wouldn't mind a simple link on the main page(s), but the
last word here belongs to Eric. There should be a discussion and
agreement about on which pages it appears and for how long (I mean, if
your company creates the site, but after 6 months nobody takes care of
us, only us, the Quanta developers, maybe it doesn't make sense to
advertise the original creators until the end of time, only for a certain
amount, like 1 year). I know that the whole kdewebdev site has a
relatively high Google ranking, which affects all sites linked from it,
so it has some value. ;)
 It should also be sorted out, if such linking in exchange of side
developing would legally mean sponsorship or not in the US. I know that
the KDE sites under the kde.org domain generally forbid such linking as
it would mean commercial activity which would underminde the nonprofit
status of the KDE eV organization which owns the domains (but this is in
Germany).

I have some requirements though regarding the development process and the
licencing:
- the development should be done in our subversion repository (which we
just set up, see the archives of this list)
- it should be possible to us to modify the source in a relatively easy
way (this is similar to the above requirement, it mean
- due to the above requirement and the openness of Quanta, the licensing
should be GPL (or more liberal, but compatible licence)
- there is more than Quanta hosted on the site, so the new framework or
layout should allow easy integration of the other sites (Kommander,
KLinkStatus, etc. and even newer ones in the future).

Anyway, let's wait first Eric response, and depending on that we can
continue the discussion about how to do and what to do.

Andras

> Hi again,
>
> El mar, 10-04-2007 a las 11:41 +0200, Philipp Wendisch escribió:
>> Carlos Rincón wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > i'm Carlos Rincon one of the partners of Neurotic, a web design
>> company.
>> >
>> > We think that the design of Quanta is very old and needs a redesign.
>> We
>> > would like to do that redesign if we are allowed to put a small link
>> in
>> > sidebar or footer to our web page(http://en.neuroticweb.com)
>> >
>> > We also want to make the redesign because as Quanta users we want to
>> > compensate for your great work.
>> >
>> > We have already made a design draft, it's a very very "beta" but you
>> can
>> > see something tangible.
>> > http://neuroticweb.com/proyectos_externos/quanta/images/quanta-interface.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> > Our idea is to simplify the web, putting the more important elements
>> > into the top: a simple definition of Quanta, the download and the
>> > screenshots. We also have redesigned the logo (only a little).
>> >
>> well, not bad at all.
>>
>> I am myself a programmer, designer and intensive quanta user. I second
>> that the
>> website could indeed use some make-up, beside the fact that it's
>> technically
>> very good. I like that business style which indeed could push quanta and
>> its
>> tools to a much broader audience than is already is and attract more
>> users to
>> use this powerful environment.
>>
>> what i still miss is the feed-section, which would also be very useful
>> so
>> people could always be in touch with news and announcements beside the
>> mailing-lists.
>
> The screenshot is only a draft. It needs a lot more work, but first we
> need  the web responsible agreement.
>
>>
>> very nice work
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Carlos Rincón
> www.neuroticweb.com
> www.neuroticweb.com/blog
>
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