As of the previous failed attempts to make something happen here I want to get what I have out here for everyone to consider/use/ignore as desired:
First some images of where I got: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10320/djangoproject/dp.com-home.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10320/djangoproject/homepage-scrolled.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10320/djangoproject/documentation.png And my illustrator source file. The font I was using for almost everything was Adelle which is available from typekit and possibly other places. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10320/djangoproject/dp.com.xian.redesign.ai IA wise: * My plan was for a simple top nav that could be minimized further on interior pages. * sections of the site could such as the homepage could be fairly long and use a side nav that followed/showed your location similar to: http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/ (see second screenshot) * The homepage could have a couple of places for time based updates up in the banner/nav area. In my screen shot it shows a few blog post titles and upcoming events. while I completely stalled out I'm totally excited about DP getting a much needed refresh and growing further. glhf! —Xian On Apr 30, 3:41 pm, Idan Gazit <i...@gazit.me> wrote: > Lovely to see fresh talent and energy applied to a long-stalled issue. :) > > I think Giovanni's proposal has a strong, simple page structure, and it does > a good job of IA for our varied audience. Putting on my BDesignerFL hat, > let's use that as a starting point. > > Let's set aside the issue of restyling docs for now; we can't run in all > directions at once. > > Homepage Structure > =============== > > News > ~~~~ > > The major element elided from the proposal is some display of news. The > current homepage shows the most recent four entries; I think one is > sufficient for the homepage, but it does need to be somewhere on the page. > > Header nav > ~~~~~~~~ > > There is no header nav in the proposal. I'd like to have some minimal list of > primary nav links, like the ones at the top-left of the page fat-footer. On > the homepage, they can appear very de-emphasized, I like the spare look of > the masthead and I don't want to break that by boxing it in with a visual bar > from above. > > Header actions > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > While I like the "quick start" mechanic, those buttons require some love: > > * There's no obvious "get django" or "download" call-to-action. "Quick start" > is good but we're burying the download information in there. > * The quick start drawer doesn't make mention of the other ways you can get > Django, for example downloading a tarball or a link to github. > * There's no quick display of our most recent released version. It belongs > somewhere at the level of these buttons. > > My proposal is a button layout like: > > [ Get Django 1.4 v ] [ Quick Start v ] [ Documentation ] > > The get-django button can show a drawer like quick start, but show the three > common routes (pip, tarball, github) and supply a link to a page with more > details if need be. > > Who's Using Django > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > I don't know if we'll have case studies. If not, an attractive display of > some logos wouldn't go badly. If we do, then we can fade out the other logos > upon click and show a bit of teaser text about the company with a link to > "read more…" > > Footer > ~~~~~ > > I like the structure. Need to give some thought to the six large elements and > make sure they're the best choices for what to show there. > > Responsive Structure > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > A requirement for the new dp.com is that it be responsive or adaptive. I'm > not going to get hung up on the technicalities—something which looks and > works well on a variety of common screen geometries. The proposed page layout > would linearize well for smaller screens, which is excellent. > > Non-homepage templates > =================== > > I'm not sure what other pages we have in our current site, ignoring trac for > now. I suspect that we'll need one or two templates for non-home pages. > > Look & Graphic Design > ================= > > I don't want to get off course with the IA work. Color and design stuff can > wait until we're feeling that the structure is mostly baked. > > If you have ideas and you want to get them down, I'd recommend you make > something like style tiles (http://styletil.es/). > > Thanks all for your brains on this matter. I am excited to see this underway, > and I can't wait to see what comes next. :) > > -I -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
