Website redesign

[Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net>]

Hi dev,

We discuss on IM last week that we should redesign the website and have
something that looks a little more "sexy" and appealing.

I have a friend who is Web Designer and interested in making us a website.

I have some basic design questions for you to guide him a little before he
draws a first sketch.

1°/ What kind of design do we want ? Left side column for navigation links,
right side column (much larger) for content is a standard that we could use,
what do you think ?

2°/ What are our colours ? Alex was proposing to use match the colours used
by the Mozilla website, which is a variation of blues. Any thougths ?

3°/ What Navigation do we want to show ? Do we match the old architecture
used by the maven generated website or do we change it ? What kind of
sections do we want to have ?

4°/ Since we are going to rebuild a website, I think It could be a good time
for designing the logo for ADS. This way, we could integrate these things
together. If you're OK with that, I think my friend will be pleased to
propose us something, and I could maybe have some proposals from other
friends that makes some graphics arts too.

Cheers,

P-A M.

Re: Website redesign

[Ersin Er <er...@gmail.com>]

On 12/19/06, Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org> wrote:
> Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/18/06, *Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot* <pa@marcelot.net
> > <ma...@marcelot.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi dev,
> >
> >     We discuss on IM last week that we should redesign the website and
> >     have something that looks a little more "sexy" and appealing.
> >
> >     I have a friend who is Web Designer and interested in making us a
> >     website.
> >
> >     I have some basic design questions for you to guide him a little
> >     before he draws a first sketch.
> >
> >     1°/ What kind of design do we want ? Left side column for navigation
> >     links, right side column (much larger) for content is a standard
> >     that we could use, what do you think ?
> >
> >
> > I think that the best sample of what I like to have is :
> > http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKETxSITE
> > So basically, left side for navigation, right side : content.
>
> Yeah that sounds good to me too.
>
> >     2°/ What are our colours ? Alex was proposing to use match the
> >     colours used by the Mozilla website, which is a variation of blues.
> >     Any thougths ?
> >
> >
> > Well, even if Mozilla colors are not so bad, I would prefer the Ubuntu
> > colors
>
> Ahhh yeah I like that better actually.  Good call Emmanuel.
>
> >     3°/ What Navigation do we want to show ? Do we match the old
> >     architecture used by the maven generated website or do we change it
> >     ? What kind of sections do we want to have ?
>
> Hmmm basically I think we need to have a list of all the DIRxZZZ
> confluence exports as items that can be visited?  Also we may needs some
> filling in there.
>
> Really I'm a bit clueless here.  Looking for others to enlighten me.

What I propose here is to merge needed spaces under DIRxSITE (using
confluence import feature). So we'll publish only a single space as
seen from user side.

> >     4°/ Since we are going to rebuild a website, I think It could be a
> >     good time for designing the logo for ADS. This way, we could
> >     integrate these things together. If you're OK with that, I think my
> >     friend will be pleased to propose us something, and I could maybe
> >     have some proposals from other friends that makes some graphics arts
> >     too.
>
> Yeah the more logo options we can have the better.  Right now we have none.
>
> > Yeah, let's start a logo contest on cwiki. This is the way to go !
>
> Again I agree completely.  Stefan was talking about someone that might
> help with a logo in the past.  I wonder what the status is on that.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>


-- 
Ersin

Re: Website redesign

[Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org>]

Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/18/06, *Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot* <pa@marcelot.net
> <ma...@marcelot.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi dev,
> 
>     We discuss on IM last week that we should redesign the website and
>     have something that looks a little more "sexy" and appealing.
> 
>     I have a friend who is Web Designer and interested in making us a
>     website.
> 
>     I have some basic design questions for you to guide him a little
>     before he draws a first sketch.
> 
>     1°/ What kind of design do we want ? Left side column for navigation
>     links, right side column (much larger) for content is a standard
>     that we could use, what do you think ? 
> 
> 
> I think that the best sample of what I like to have is :
> http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKETxSITE
> So basically, left side for navigation, right side : content.

Yeah that sounds good to me too.

>     2°/ What are our colours ? Alex was proposing to use match the
>     colours used by the Mozilla website, which is a variation of blues.
>     Any thougths ? 
> 
> 
> Well, even if Mozilla colors are not so bad, I would prefer the Ubuntu
> colors

Ahhh yeah I like that better actually.  Good call Emmanuel.

>     3°/ What Navigation do we want to show ? Do we match the old
>     architecture used by the maven generated website or do we change it
>     ? What kind of sections do we want to have ? 

Hmmm basically I think we need to have a list of all the DIRxZZZ
confluence exports as items that can be visited?  Also we may needs some
filling in there.

Really I'm a bit clueless here.  Looking for others to enlighten me.

>     4°/ Since we are going to rebuild a website, I think It could be a
>     good time for designing the logo for ADS. This way, we could
>     integrate these things together. If you're OK with that, I think my
>     friend will be pleased to propose us something, and I could maybe
>     have some proposals from other friends that makes some graphics arts
>     too. 

Yeah the more logo options we can have the better.  Right now we have none.

> Yeah, let's start a logo contest on cwiki. This is the way to go !

Again I agree completely.  Stefan was talking about someone that might
help with a logo in the past.  I wonder what the status is on that.


Alex

Re: Website redesign

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

On 12/18/06, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net> wrote:
>
> Hi dev,
>
> We discuss on IM last week that we should redesign the website and have
> something that looks a little more "sexy" and appealing.
>
> I have a friend who is Web Designer and interested in making us a website.
>
>
> I have some basic design questions for you to guide him a little before he
> draws a first sketch.
>
> 1°/ What kind of design do we want ? Left side column for navigation
> links, right side column (much larger) for content is a standard that we
> could use, what do you think ?


I think that the best sample of what I like to have is :
http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKETxSITE
So basically, left side for navigation, right side : content.

2°/ What are our colours ? Alex was proposing to use match the colours used
> by the Mozilla website, which is a variation of blues. Any thougths ?


Well, even if Mozilla colors are not so bad, I would prefer the Ubuntu
colors

3°/ What Navigation do we want to show ? Do we match the old architecture
> used by the maven generated website or do we change it ? What kind of
> sections do we want to have ?


We must discuss that on a wiki page, I guess... The old architecture is
pretty old, and does not represent the current state of the project. What is
really important is that we have ADS, plus a list of TLP like Triplesec,
LdapStudio, etc... Mina is now not any more a part of ADS, and the site
should reflect this. We _must_ give a high focus on user's guide, now that
they have been incredibly improved by the G-men (G stands for German :), and
less on architecture, in my mind. A News section on top of content part is
also mandatory (not even sure that the initial content should not just be
this 'nexs' section)

4°/ Since we are going to rebuild a website, I think It could be a good time
> for designing the logo for ADS. This way, we could integrate these things
> together. If you're OK with that, I think my friend will be pleased to
> propose us something, and I could maybe have some proposals from other
> friends that makes some graphics arts too.


Yeah, let's start a logo contest on cwiki. This is the way to go !

Emmanuel

Cheers,
>
> P-A M.
>



-- 
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com