[kdewebdev-site] redesign of the quanta web site

Tue Apr 10 09:39:34 EDT 2007

El mar, 10-04-2007 a las 15:35 +0300, Andras Mantia escribió:
> Hi Carlos and the others,

Hi

> 
>  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.

We already sent an email to Eric but with no reply. In fact it's too
little time to say Eric doesn't reply to us because we send the email a
few days ago. We sent a new email to the list because we already had a
design draft and because it could be a more effective way to contact to
Quanta community.

>  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. ;)

Well, we think that a year could be a reasonable time for the link. We
want to offer you a continuous support for the web design. This doesn't
include the creation of html itself but the minor design changes or
adaptations. If you think we don't do this well next year you will be
free to remove the link.

>  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)

Ok, just tell us how to do it and we'll do it.

> - it should be possible to us to modify the source in a relatively easy
> way (this is similar to the above requirement, it mean

The layout will be in XHTML+CSS Strict. We'll make it easy to modify.

> - due to the above requirement and the openness of Quanta, the licensing
> should be GPL (or more liberal, but compatible licence)

Ok, no problem.

> - 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).

Ok.

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

Ok, we'll be waiting for his response.

> 
> 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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