Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-04-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 9, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Manveru wrote: My penny to the well... At first sight http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ has professional feeling, but maybe little to heavy. I like http://www.python.org/ because I always find this page useful. http://www.inkscape.org has simple structure, but is g

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-04-09 Thread Manveru
My penny to the well... At first sight http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ has professional feeling, but maybe little to heavy. I like http://www.python.org/ because I always find this page useful. http://www.inkscape.org has simple structure, but is good looking. Very professional was http://www.drupal.

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-29 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Mar 29, 2008, at 2:17 PM, AK wrote: John wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008 04:20:21 am AK wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: Logo & graphical profile Any company needs a logo and preferably a graphical profile to make themselves known to their

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-29 Thread AK
John wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008 04:20:21 am AK wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: Logo & graphical profile Any company needs a logo and preferably a graphical profile to make themselves known to their customers. Think of the bi

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of "portal page" that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and t

Does the logo look like a platypus? (Was: Primary colours of LyX? )Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, John wrote: People will remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that. But in all the time that the logo has been there it never occurred to me that it was a platypus, despite being familiar with the O'Reilly like platypus associated with the original example d

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, AK wrote: A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries, and a range of supplies for commercial purposes. Mostly, for the project like LyX, I believe that graphical profile should be just a palette of colors and the logo. Ok. The only additiona

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread John
On Saturday 29 March 2008 04:20:21 am AK wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: > > Logo & graphical profile > > > > Any company needs a logo and preferably a graphical profile to make > > themselves known to their customers. > > > > Think of the big compan

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread AK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of c

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh... what do you mean "in the middle"? I've created a draft page, and put a copy of the page in a section there under the heading Version 1 - as per Rich's suggestion in the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome-Draft Christian,

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread John
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:46:10 am rgheck wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: > > I think I'll just do development and leave this issue to you guys. ;-) Yes! Let's enjoy the substance of LyX. We can leave the shadow to OO, MS Office, and the others

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Great idea, Christian. I wouldn't have thought of creating a "graphical profile", but it makes total sense. Hopefully Andrei (AK) will have something to say on this topic. Rex >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour > >>> theme? M

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread rgheck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of c

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have somet

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should be

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have something like that? In my opinion a color set sh

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the mi

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the middle and emphasize the menus. There can be a s

Re: Temporary change to website background (was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
It looks like we will be creating a whole new design soon, but as a temporary solution that looks like an improvement to me. Rex On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > >> I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the backgro

Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.

Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. Th

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die. http://195.113.31.123/~s

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the > white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die. http://195.113.31.123/~sanda/junk/lyx/www/ pavel

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at le

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and > > the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the > > wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments fr

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. The main text should be black-on-white instead of

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though. I agree that the current wiki looks a bit bet

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. Hi Rex, I asked my girlfriend who

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread John
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:09:32 am Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: > > I would suggest the following rules: > >I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to > like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. > >Regardles

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: I would suggest the following rules: I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread David Hewitt
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Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread killermike
In addition to my other comments, I like the SciPy.org site too. For some reason, I couldn't access that site this morning. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom Previous three articles: Linux for mother - http://www.linux.com/feature/125799 IBM refuse to op

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Julio Rojas
For me SciPy and Ruby (in that order) are the best. Both look really professionally designed, but ScyPy site uses all the screen, letting you spread the information in a better way. All you have to do is pick the color scheme, which at least by my tastes should include blue, put the logo/mascot in

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there'

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-22 Thread killermike
On Saturday 22 March 2008 23:01:35 Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look > and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what > people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with >

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 07:01:35PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other website

Website re-design ideas

2008-03-22 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their des