Hi Thanks for the work and this message! I have updated my local copy of the repo/branch and built it, you can see the current status in https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net/
El 20/7/19 a las 22:46, Thomas Lange escribió: > We had a small web team meeting today in Curitiba at DebConf. > Attendees: Steve, Carsten, Valession, Thomas > > We talked about the new homepage. > > - We will disable auto sliding of the photos, user must click to see > next/other photos > - The black/white icons are great, we may want to adjust the thickness > of two icons (more and user support) > > > News section > - calendar sheets, valessio/thomas think it's to big, > Proposal from Steve: remove day of week and year > optional: maybe use numbers instead of words I feel that the calendar "image" is more for future events, not (past) news? I agree that it's too big. +1 to remove the day of the week. Year I think we should keep it. > - idea: try to create a news entry at least every two weeks > This should be "easy", if there is nothing new in the proper website, the news can be chosen from the published micronews. > Why Debian section > - Move "Why Debian" to the right half, between "User support" and More > and link it to intro/why_debian === DONE > - on intro/Why_debian put some highlight items (I have 5 items) on the top of > the page > target different groups in "Why Debian" > - business user > - home users > - developers > - special use cases (blends? e.g. point to Debian edu) > why_debian is a text from 1998. Maybe I just rewrite it. > > - remove Debian from top bar text "Debian Blog" "Debian Micronews" "Planet > Debian" === DONE > > > For mobiles or other narrow devices Valessio can make a drop down like menu > on the top left for kalles design. I've seen several issues when displaying the new homepage in a phone but I guess I'll wait for the design to settle a bit more. > > - new /community page, put a picture on this page, maybe the DPL with a > welcome message We have an open bug about this: #924942 I would prefer to repeat a group photo, but I have no strong opinion on this. > - new /software page, add picture (swirl or desktop), remove CD vendors, > pre-installed computer > I feel that those (CD vendors, preinstalled devices vendors) belong to the /community section, together with /users, /partners, /mirror/sponsors, etc > Timeline > - implement the changes (homepage and the two "more" pages) > - Set a date and give the translators some time (2-3 weeks) to prepare their > versions > - write announcement > - merge new-homepage branch into master > > > Changing photo shown on the new homepage: > We will remove the auto sliding feature. People can still click on one > of the bubble below to see another photo. > We like to change the primary photo shown after some time (once a week?). > Idea: we have several photos available. The wml links to image1, which > is a symlink to a particular photo. We change the symlink without > changing the wml file, so the users do not always see the same > photo. Can this be implemented in one of the cron jobs (lessoften,..)? > Other ideas? > I don't know which is the better way to do this. If we change the name of the file linked/displayed, it won't be issues with the browser cache. Otherwise, we need to take into account possible browser caches displaying the "old" image. > > ================================================== > We also looked at the current version of the new download page > Here, a lot more work has to be done. This is independent from the new > homepage. > > - explain which image the user should choose > we need some short text, so the user can select his/her ISO > - Explain what's the difference between the several images > - We had a look at https://trisquel.info download > this is an easy way to choose > - have also looked at the Ubuntu download (desktop,server,cloud) > - in Debian we have (net installer, live image with calamares, cloud) > - free/non-free variants (e.g. if you have a notebook, you may need the > non-free version) > - What information can be put into a hover box or when clicking on "show > more info"? > > download: s/Use your Debian installation/Start your Debian installation/ > I see no recent changes in the corresponding branch, so I didn't rebuild my local copy yet. If there are changes, I will rebuild and you can see them in https://debian-newdownload.larjona.net/download/ > > P.S.: There will also be a web BoF and a web work session during the next > days. > Great! I'll look at the schedule and hopefully the remote attending people can contribute somehow. Good work! Cheers -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
