People weren't proposing finished designs Daniel, they're mockups/wireframes. The first focus here is getting the IA right and then making it "sexy".
I for one think that canned designs are not the way to go for a project such as Django. One of the goals with the redesign of the site is to showcase how the Django community values design in addition to development and choosing a pre made design doesn't serve those ends IMO. On the flip side, there's nothin wrong with borrowing (read stealing) good ideas from other designs. That's what art is anyways ;) Just my $.02. On May 1, 2012, at 5:14 PM, "Daniel Sokolowski" <daniel.sokolow...@klinsight.com> wrote: > Being realistic here we must acknowledge that likely the majority of us are > great programmers but not great designers – none of the design proposed did > it for me – they were not bad but they weren’t great, and I want epic, I want > sexy and I want eye candy. > > So I say this: it is no shame to use a pre-existing, pre-made template. > > I have used http://themeforest.net/?ref=danols successfully in the past - yes > it includes my referral link - an added benefit is we can get through the > mock up and conversion phases very quickly. Some designs that caught my eye > --- please note these are fluid designs hence table and smartphone ready, > resize your browser window to see what I mean. > > http://themeforest.net/item/spectrum-responsive-business-site-template/full_screen_preview/2035034 > http://themeforest.net/item/doctype-claquette-responsive-video-html-template/full_screen_preview/2085780 > http://themeforest.net/item/valera-responsive-html-template/full_screen_preview/2194402 > > > > However > From: Dana Woodman > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 3:22 AM > To: django-developers@googlegroups.com > Subject: Redesign of djangoproject.com? > > So now that Django is being moved to Git/Github (which is awesome!), maybe it > would be a good time to think about a revamped home page for the project ala > djangoproject.com? > > Obviously this is no small undertaking and would be potentially contentions > as to what would be the proper path, but I feel (and I don't think I'm alone) > that djangoproject.com could use a bit of a facelift. > > I have some idea of my own as to how this could be accomplished and I'm sure > there are a ton of others out there with great ideas as well. Maybe we could > open up some discussion on this idea? > > Forgive me if this has been proposed before as I'm new to the group! > > Cheers, > Dana > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/g8ngEnVG_EsJ. > 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. > Daniel Sokolowski > Web Engineer > Danols Web Engineering > http://webdesign.danols.com/ > -- > 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. -- 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.
