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From: | Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf |
Subject: | Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online |
Date: | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:18:32 +0200 |
Am Mittwoch den, 9. Oktober 2002, um 21:37, schrieb Pascal Bourguignon:
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
Background images are lame ;-) and you need to make them quite large to avoid pattering, what looks *really* awkward. The purpose of the not so usual layout is just to look not so usual and worn out. When I came to the GNUstep website for my first time years ago, it had a appealing design (compared to the standards of websites around this time), it didn't look just like everybody's website around this time (standard grey background, times fontface, lots of blinking texts and animated email icons - I hope you remember). If GNUstep's website would have looked like every other or worse, I wouldn't have bothered with GNUstep at all. The FIRST IMPRESSION IS IMPORTANT, today GNUstep's website design wouldn't scare me away anymore, might it be as ugly as possible (I don't say it is, it is just suboptimal) since now I know the inner values of GNUstep. But put yourself in the position of somebody, who comes along the GNUstep website for the very first time - this is my point - people judge from the look. And while it might suit your needs perfectly, I don't think that the lynxversion would attract crowds of people.
So times are changing and the GNUstep website looks a little aged over the years. It could need a facelift...
Well, my proposal was a first shot and I didn't say it is perfect (otherwise I wouldn't have asked you)
Lars
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