Hi everyone, I saw this on HackerNews(news.ycombinator.com) and wanted to contribute. Here is my mockup: http://i.imgur.com/dSMSJ.jpg
With the design, I focused on keeping the look extremely clean, professional and minimalistic. The content is based on that of the current site. The mockup may seem a bit lacking in color, but adding eye-catching icons for the features, and the screens for the "built with Django" section will add sufficient color to liven up the design. On wider screens, the blog posts will appear in a siderbar to the left of the features list. If you guys like it, email me at inl...@gmail.com, or reply here. You can check out my previous work at madebyargon.com. Some of you may have seen the redesign I did for VideoLAN (videolan.org) which receive a positive reaction from the open-source community surrounding VLC. Thanks. On Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:05:27 PM UTC+6, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > Hi Dana, > > I completely agree. I've been trying to get a redesign of > djangoproject.com going for quite some time under the auspices of the > Django Foundation. As you can see from the lack of changes, you can see > that I haven't been particularly successful :-( > > The fundamental problem is that we have plenty of coding talent at our > disposal, but not as much design talent. That's not to say that there > aren't many talented designers in our community -- there are -- it's just > that they're all very busy. We've approached several people in the Django > design community asking them to help out, and some have even made done some > initial work. However, redesign of a high-profile site like > djangoproject.com is a big job, and nobody has been able to spare the > time to bring the job to completion. > > So - at this point I'm open to any offers. I want to avoid design by > committee -- ideally, I would like to pass this off to a single person (or > a small group) and give them complete control over design process. I'm not > completely sure how to organise who gets this role -- suggestions are > welcome. > > If you (or anyone else) is interested, drop me a line and I can give you > the design brief we've been working with. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > > > On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dana Woodman wrote: > > > 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 (http://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 (http://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(mailto: > django-developers@googlegroups.com). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com (mailto: > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/redpIwTY8KMJ. 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.
