[jira] [Comment Edited] (WICKET-3341) New design for wicket site

["Chris Colman (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chris Colman edited comment on WICKET-3341 at 1/2/15 1:48 AM:
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There are some styling/look and feel (whatever the graphic artists call it) issues that I thought might be worth raising. Hopefully this can be taken as constructive - I'm not trying to be negative.

I fully appreciate the effect of the black and white photo on the home page instilling the idea of history and the stability that only comes from software with a long heritage but I think there are two potential issues with this:
1. Once you click on any link on the home page the subsequent pages, with their modern blue banner and lack of black and white imagery, have a completely different look and feel compared to the home page - to me it feels like I have just moved to a totally different website. The blue banner feature of every other page has no visual association with the front page so there is no visual clue that I'm actually on the same website with the same styling.
2. Black and white images are associated with a long, authentic, trusted history which is great but they are also associated with 'old' which may not be so great for newcomers to the site.

I do like the idea of the image because it gives a human feel and a sense of the giants who have written this awesome framework and on whose shoulders we stand.

Some possible solutions to the issues (at least I see them as issues IMHO, others may disagree) could be:

Issue 1. Perhaps create a blue banner (same blue as on other pages) at the top - probably encompassing the main menu items and just high enough to encompass them. It shouldn't be as high as it is on the other pages because that would over power the image. By having this blue element on the home page we will be providing some visual consistency between the home page and the other pages and that would solve issue 1.

Issue 2. What does it look like if the image of the original devs is color instead of black and white? Hopefully it can look modern but still show community and heritage. I think the first three words of the introduction "Invented in 2004" can capture the 'heritage' part quite well on it's own without needing the image to be black and white.


was (Author: chrisc):
There are some styling/look and feel (whatever the graphic artists call it) issues that I thought might be worth raising. Hopefully this can be taken as constructive - I'm not trying to be negative.

I fully appreciate the effect of the black and white photo on the home page instilling the idea of history and the stability that only comes from software with a long heritage but I think there are two potential issues with this:
1. Once you click on any link on the home page the subsequent pages, with their modern blue banner and lack of black and white imagery, have a completely different look and feel compared to the home page - to me it feels like I have just moved to a totally different website. The blue banner feature of every other page has no visual association with the front page so there is no visual clue that I'm actually on the same website with the same styling.
2. Black and white images are associated with a long, authentic, trusted history which is great but they are also associated with 'old' which may not be so great for newcomers to the site.

I do like the idea of the image because it gives a human feel and a sense of the giants who have written this awesome framework and on whose shoulders we stand.

Some possible solutions to the issues (at least I see them as issues IMHO, others may disagree) could be:

Issue 1. Perhaps create a blue banner (same blue as on other pages) at the top - probably encompassing the main menu items and just high enough to encompass them. It shouldn't be as high as it is on the other pages because that would over power the image. By having this blue element on the home page we will be providing some visual consistency between the home page and the other pages and that would solve issue 1.

Issue 2. What does it look like if the image of the original devs is color instead of black and white? Hopefully it can look modern but still show community and heritage. In think the first three words of the introduction "Invented in 2004" can capture the 'heritage' part quite well on it's own without needing the image to be black and white.

> New design for wicket site
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: WICKET-3341
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3341
>             Project: Wicket
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: site
>            Reporter: Martijn Dashorst
>         Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--Alternative design.jpg, Keynote001.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz001.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz002.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz003.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz004.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz005.png, logo.wicket.ai, logo.wicket.jpg, wicket-flat-new-top.002.png, wicket-flat-new-top.003.png, wicket-flat-new-top.004.png, wicket-flat-new-top.005.png, wicket-flat.001.png, wicket-logo-big.png, wicket-logo.svg, wicket-site-new.001.png, wicket-site-new.002.png, wicket-site-new.003.png, wicket-site-new.004.png, wicket-site-new.005.png, wicket-site-new.006.png
>
>
> Our current site design has been with us for quite a while. It looked fresh in the 1980s, but now it has gone stale.
> This is a proposal for a new, fresh design of the home page and sub pages.
> The home page will feature a prominent download link, a list of feature descriptions, screenshots of sites powered by Wicket, official blog items and Buzz by our users.
> The screenshots of wicket powered websites will link to short descriptions of the sites under /meet/poweredby. Links to the websites will of course have nofollow
> Other pages will feature a menu on the right side of the page providing direct links to content. 
> Attached are a couple of screen shots of how the site might look like.
> Screen 005 is an alternative of the home page without the list of features, but including the introduction to wicket article.



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