Should we have a webdev list? In the past we did had dedicated list for each line of the project. I am not sure this is something that should be discussed as the work on redesign start growing.
Some suggestions on the design of the site: - Show the product, currently there is nothing visual that relates the software with office productivity. - Responsive design, mobile browsers, tablets and devices can have different dimensions on the site, having a RD conformant site could help our users browse through the site. - Corporate theme, ViewVC, cWiki, Forum(?), Bugzilla have their own theme, should there be efforts to adopt the same design like the templates/extension/wiki site. - Website QA - Possible broken pages due to the change in frameworks (from Oracle to Apache) on smaller projects. On 9/25/12, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: >> > With our graduation coming up soon, it might be time for us to consider >> > a >> > slight update to the user portal web site -- >> > http://www.openoffice.org/-- >> > for this momentous occasion. >> > >> > To this end, I've moved some entities to the "test" directory, and >> updated >> > robots.txt to not index this directory. >> > >> > I've wanted to fix some of the styling for a while to deal with >> horizontal >> > placement issues, but I'm sure some of you have some ideas as well. >> > >> > Maybe a wiki page would be a good idea as well to present graphic >> mockups of >> > ideas. >> > >> >> Good topic to bring up. >> >> With graduation we'll have to think about changes to two websites. >> www.openoffice.org, of course. But also our project website, which >> will end up at openoffice.apache.org. The mailing lists will also >> update, e.g., [email protected] --> [email protected]. Our >> subversion tree changes as well. Ditto for Apache dist directory. >> >> So that leads to several sets of website changes: >> >> 1) Any rebranding we need/want to do, e.g. remove "incubator" >> disclaimer and references. There was talk at one point about >> refreshing the logo design at this time as well. >> >> 2) Updating URL's, email list address, SVN and dist directory >> references. There may be others. This is pretty much a search & >> replace operation. >> >> 3) Any work to "freshen" the website UI. IMHO it is always a good >> time to improve the website ;-) >> >> >> I wonder if it would be a good time to rethink the default font on the >> website. Look at our plain text versus Mozilla's website, which uses >> OpenSans (Apache 2.0 License): >> >> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ >> >> http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans >> >> To me this is much more legible than our current font (Liberation?) >> > > I know we'll have quite a number of references to change after we graduate, > and I thought we were planning on using the area where we have the Apache > incubator icon for something else but I'd need to go look that up. > > re: fonts --- I'll need to investigate this. I didn't realize we had much > of anything specified. hmmmm.... > > > >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> > So...get your creative juices flowing and let's see what we can do. >> > -- >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > MzK >> > >> > "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back >> > doesn't mean the circus has left town." >> > -- George Carlin >> > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back > doesn't mean the circus has left town." > -- George Carlin > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
