RE: [phoenix-dev] New website design: a call for participation

["Nathan Gervais" <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I get the felling that the drive here is to see something very different
then what we have currently.  While I'm not opposed to this approach I do
think that there should be a lot of caution used when designing a layout
like this.  Keep in mind that we have a very broad target audience.
Designing a homepage that is like FireFox [1] is great for someone who just
wants to download Eclipse but for a committer or a developer looking for
resources / projects it's less then adequate.  

I think that the biggest challenge we face is catering to all of these
different user types at the same time.  They can't all be equal and the time
has come where we need to decide which of these users are the most
important.  At that point we can then design a page that satisfies those
requirements.

[1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?from=getfirefox

Nathan Gervais - nathan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web Developer 
The Eclipse Foundation
 
 
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[mailto:phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karl Matthias
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:35 PM
To: For developers on the new Eclipse.org website project.
Subject: Re: [phoenix-dev] New website design: a call for participation

I like this idea. Personally I'd also like to lose the header bar. :) 
Modern pages seem to use a more integrated approach to displaying this 
information, and use whitespace around the edge of the page. IMHO that's 
a better look. I understand the need to supporting existing information, 
though. So I like the idea of asking for both. That way we know what 
we're missing. Or what we're not missing. :)

Karl


Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
> Why not have two design contests?
> One for a revision to the current layouts (3/4 columns) and one for a 
> "bold new look where no Eclipse.org site has gone before"?
>
> Nathan Gervais wrote:
>>
>> I think the point of having D is so our current pages that use that 
>> layout are still going to function after an upgrade of the skin.
>>
>> I'm all for having new and fancy layouts that don't involve 3 or 4 
>> columns.
>>
>
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