Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

Remember the site will be viewed on smartphones. Current site is set at
%tages, it appears, as it displays well in a droid 2 screen.
On Dec 21, 2010 5:38 PM, "Bernhard Dippold" <bernhard@familie-dippold.at>
wrote:
> Hi David, all, :-)
>
> David Nelson schrieb:
> > Hi Klaus, Bernhard, Florian, all, :-)
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold
> > [...]
> > > PPS: I still believe, that the visible part of the main page should not
> > > contain more than a few lines of text, a download button (can lead to
the
> > > download page) and links to the most interesting areas. Twitter and blog
in
> > > the "scrolling area" are ok, but I think a "news" area is more important
> > > than those tow.
> >
> > I will put at least a download button above the home page text, but
> > did not get around to it yet. You will notice that I *have* been
> > listening to people's comments, and complying with most of them.
>
> Sorry if my posting had any negative taste - I didn't mean this at all.
> > The problem is that the current theme is very narrow, and limits what
> > you can place on the page quite a lot. That applies to the top menu
> > bar, the side menu and the actual content area.
>
> That's not a bug - it's a feature. ;-)
>
> The main page shouldn't contain more than the most important information
> for every visitor (or at least for the majority of them).
>
> It must be readable in a few seconds - and then lead the visitor to the
> area of interest.
>
> I'll try to write something to show what I mean - don't know if this
> will be possible today.
> > [...]
> >
> > I would propose a theme based on the theme at
> > libreofficeaustralia.org. Take a look at screenshots [1] and [2]. The
> > design perfectly fits the current marketing color scheme and graphic
> > charter. It's simple but very Web 2.0. It's based on the Fusion theme
> > for Drupal. It gives a lot more space and scope for nicely laying out
> > the content, with lots of nice big screenshots, etc.
>
> I didn't comment on the Drupal page by now, because I didn't have the
> time to have a closer look than just the first screenshots. This will
> become one of my tasks after the LibO 3.3 release.
>
> For the moment just a few remarks to your idea of using this theme for
> the present website:
>
> I can't see the screenshots without horizontal scrolling - something I
> really would like to avoid.
>
> I don't know the minimal window size necessary for the Drupal site to
> look good, but here (with 1080px window width) the screenshot doesn't.
>
> Colors look too dark for representing a libre and open office suite and
> a contributor friendly community.
>
> The entire text area is crowded - borders are too narrow, not enough
> space over headings.
>
> And I don't like drop-down menus on websites, because they modify the
> visual impression very much.
>
> But all of these point are manageable before the Drupal site will become
> active - I just wanted to tell you, that I don't support using this
> theme for the SilverStripe site.
>
> > [...]
> >
> > What do you think, guys?
> >
> > a) We'd get a lot more flexibility with the content.
>
> Please keep the minimum page width (without scrolling) of 990 px (some
> netbooks only have 1024x768 displays - and these are the system
> requirements for LibreOffice too).
>
> At the moment the page content is about 100px less in width, and the
> text area is just 700px - this could be broadened IMHO.
>
> With 990px width the screenshot shuffler would cover not more than half
> of the text area - this might be enough to correct the impression that
> it would be the main content on the page.
>
> I don't think that any text area broader than 800 px would allow us to
> have a consistent look and feel on different screens.
>
> This would mean to reduce the width of the content in a two-parted main
> area to about 390 px, three part with 260 px are nearly that what we
> have on the homepage besides the screenshot shuffler.
>
> I don't think that we should divide the homepage in such small parts,
> but for buttons / links / RSS feeds it might be a possible alternative.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
>
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