It's like I can't win...
- The audience I support (committers and contributors) want more
relevant information and easier to find information for and about
projects on the eclipse.org website.
- Pages with too much information are bad
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=161158#c1)
- Pages with information than #2, aimed at audiences as per bug
161158c#1 are bad
(http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/phoenix-dev/msg00715.html)
- Candy-color buttons are "inconsistent with the rest of the web
site" - perhaps because they don't use purple boxes? And yet other
pages of the website (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) don't use
purple boxes either.
- Purple boxes as per the page layout
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_Phoenix#Phoenix_page_layout) are "out of
place"
- So I look for a "Phoenix style guide" but both eclipse.org search
and Google search doesn't reveal any documentation on the "standard
look & feel" as described in
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/phoenix-dev/msg00715.html I did
find the Phoenix documentation,
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Phoenix_Documentation) but it just
tells me how to use php files and a few of the css files... There isn't
a style guide or description of what is "correct" eclipse.org website
style anywhere that I could find.
I'm not against consistency, but I am against consistency for the sake
of consistency. "... anytime someone on your team starts talking about
making things
consistent, change the conversation to be about what the users’ current
knowledge is."
(http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2005/09/15/consistency-in-design-is-the-wrong-approach/)
(For example, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=118282#c17
explaining how project websites end up having two "download" links that
go to different places - it's "consistent" but very confusing.)
So... what's a person (me) who's trying to provide value to an audience
(the committers, contributors, and curious users of the Projects)
supposed to do? Give me a hint...
- Bjorn
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