Hi > Links to the two (slightly different) themes so far: > http://mray.de/fbxfoundation_robert/theme.html > http://seandiggity.com/fbxfoundation/theme.html
I prefer Robert's theme most of the two themes, but I would like to see some things from Sean's theme in Roberts theme; I would like the top nav links to be coloured like Sean's. that green is too much in Roberts theme. I like that it's left aligned, but could the title be on one line to fill the huge space to its right? I still think the News link should be the Home link. Roberts content titles are too thin. Seriously, I can barely read them. Seans titles seem too thick. I don't know the technical terms. I love Sean's footer nav links. > Here's a list of the current issues, and my thoughts on them: > > * Width of the main content: Is there a reason to shrink the design? > This is a very wordy website, likely to fill in with even more text. > We're already using a big font size and a lot of padding around the > content, so I think it's a bad idea. For mobile views, we can start > the zoom at 100% and let users zoom in/out as desired. Or we take a > look at the Bootstrap javascript/css and try to better integrate the > "responsive" stuff they've done so that the mobile view is different > and more compact horizontally, without having two separate themes (the > view wouldn't change based upon user-agent string, but the pixel size > of the viewport). Good to know it's a responsive design. Cool. > > * Footer: Maybe I'm just partial but I think the one I came up with > looks nice, separates the footer from the main content well, and isn't > distracting. The gray tones should go well with the "concrete" > background pattern too. I love the footer. So much better. > > * Bottom nav links: If we're going to be doing a left-aligned grid for > most content, these should be left-aligned too, and probably moved > closer to the footer than the main content. Using the green here is > better than the blue in my design, but I'm not sold on the green > diagonal line. Maybe just use the gray line.png from above? I prefer your blue. > > * News links: We should be able to pull the date from ikiwiki and print > that out without any trouble. We'd have to make sure the links were > sorted by date anyway. Excellent. if not too much work. > > * RSS and Atom links: Why not have them floating on the right of the > news links? Makes that area of the screen look very busy if they're > floating left (i.e. in the center of the design). I agree. > > * Language menu: Making a dropdown menu in the top-right isn't a big > deal, but I'd also say it's wise to keep the footer how it is > (especially because it shows the current state of the translations). If it's not too much trouble I think it would be great to have a drop down box in the top right. When I see translation % I think geeks live, dry content, here run for the hills. > > * Intro quote: Shortening it is fine, but making it too prominent on > every page is a bad idea. I've written a short script before that goes > through a text file or a DB of quotes, stores them in a session array > and shuffles the array, then grabs one line of the array to print until > the array is empty. If we do go with random short quotes, it's a good > approach because the user doesn't see the same quote twice until she > has seen them all during a browser session. I was thinking more of a tag line, but there seems to be a concensus that it's too much. If I were you, I wouldn't bother. > > * Video: Clipping the video and hosting it on our site seems like the > best approach. I'd be happy to clip a video, although working from a > low-quality version is probably not best. We should also have a page > linking out to youtube, vimeo, etc. for the videos there (or perhaps > our own hosted versions). If we're looking for a newer vid, can we get > a video of Bdale's keynote at FOSDEM? The purpose of the video on the home page needs to be defined. If it's a News item then it shouldn't appear on the home page as it's old news. If the purpose of the video is to explain what is a FBX, then the video title should be renamed What is a FreedomBox? I think it should be the video that Eben's quote is taken from. Alternatively, take a quote from James in his video. Either way the quote should link to the video. I think it's confusing having a video of James and a quote from Eben. It's confusing and makes me wonder who is Eben? Is Eben the guy that said Gadiffa was shot? > > > The next step is just pasting the markup etc. into ikiwiki's templates > and making sure it works. I can test locally, but pushing to the git > repo would change the actual site. So, let's make any final changes to > these demos (the commentary above is probably my last contribution to > that), get it into ikiwiki, and do some testing. Good work Robert and Sean!! > > > James - > > After Robert and I reach a consensus with the new theme, who should I > ask for the okay from before I push it? > > > Best, > ~ Sean > > > On 04/02/2012 07:54 AM, Robert Martinez wrote: > > Since it is Monday now I post my actual progress. > > I'm not finished either so there are a couple of things (especially > > the > > footer) not working. > > All in all I kept close to my mockup: > > > > http://mray.de/fbxfoundation_robert/robert_mockup01.jpg > > http://mray.de/fbxfoundation_robert/theme.html > > > > http://mray.de/fbxfoundation_robert.tar.bz2 > > > > most drastic changes are: > > - the narrower page (but wider than the mockup) > > - old background (I just prefer the strong concrete to the light > > pattern > > now) > > - left-aligned menu. > > > > I'll try to get the footer stuff fixed today, so how should we > proceed > > after that? > > > > > > Robert _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
