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Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online |
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Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:37:58 +0200 (CEST) |
> From: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:43:58 +0200
>
>
> Am Mittwoch den, 9. Oktober 2002, um 18:39, schrieb Jeff Teunissen:
>
> > Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> >
> >> As I wrote on 09/23/2002, I sat down and made a proposal for a new
> >> layout of the GNUstep website.
> >> It is now online here:
> >>
> >> http://www.sqar.org/gnustep/website-relaunch/
> >>
> >> some word thereto:
> >>
> >> I tried to make the GNUstep side look a little more friendly and
> >> relaxed
> >> (brighter colors, more space) while keeping the professional
> >> approach. I
> >> hope I succeeded.
> >
> > I think it looks less useful than the old design. It's not
> > straightforward, you have to search through the whole page to find
> > anything you want, and there is a _ton_ of dead space.
> >
> > Content is king: the rest is just window-dressing. A good design is easy
> > to ignore -- this one, isn't. The best design is the one you don't even
> > notice, because it's natural.
>
> Well, this is just the homepage of the website, the subpages would of
> course look more compact while not breaking with the general style
> (fonts colors etc.).
>
> To my understanding a homepage acts as the shopwindow acts to a store.
> You would not put all the stuff you have into your shopwindow and you
> would arrange the items neatly because the purpose of a shopwindow is to
> attract consumers. You just give an overview of all the stuff you have.
> The same way act the little boxes in my layout: they are teaser for the
> pages to follow.
A shop window can be a work of art and attract people, but there's
still the window, and it's not obvious that people come in and buy.
In this respect, a bazar (suk) is better, there's no window, you're
directly in front of all the products offered, you can feel them and
touch them, and once you have them in hand (it's quite easy to grab
them), you just have to discuss the price the the sell is done.
In particular, while it's artistic to present blocks of texts as if
they were the steps of the GNUstep logo, all the rest is awfull. The
text is not readable (too small), there is not enough contrast (black
on dark gray is not a good idea), and there's this spacing emptyness,
not to speak of the fact that one need to scroll (for a shopwindow!)
and I would need to enlarge my window to see the whole width.
If we really need to change the look of the GNUstep web, and if you
really want to impress the GNUstep logo, perhaps with a very light,
enlarged version of the logo in background would be enough, and the
text over it could have a more classical layout.
> But it is of course not all wrong what you and the others said. The
> design will go through an overhaul the next days and I try to bring all
> the advice "under one hat" as they say in Germany.
I don't see anything wrong with the style of current
http://www.gnustep.org/ Even better is the text version at
http://www.gnustep.org/lynxversion.html
> more to come soon...
>
> greetings, Lars
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__Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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The name is Baud,...... James Baud.
- Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2002/10/09
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Martin Brecher, 2002/10/09
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Jeff Teunissen, 2002/10/09
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2002/10/09
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online,
Pascal Bourguignon <=
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2002/10/09
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Robert Lillack, 2002/10/09
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Stefan Urbanek, 2002/10/10
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Pete French, 2002/10/10
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Pascal Bourguignon, 2002/10/10
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Stefan Urbanek, 2002/10/10
- Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Jeff Teunissen, 2002/10/10
Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Manuel Guesdon, 2002/10/09
Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online, Iain Hallam, 2002/10/09