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Re: [phoenix-dev] New website design: a call for participation
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I totally agree with you Nathan.
A site like eclipse.org which targets so much different roles needs to
separate the site into different subsites, i think. Look at Apple
or other big sites. Their entry pages look great but also their
specialized subsite (Dev Center) provide optimized access
to needed information for different roles.
Design Issue
One problem we have with the eclipse website design at all are two
things. The Logo itself doesn't work well on light backgrounds and the
main color (purple) is not modern at all. It looks dark and in lighter
tunes it looks not really nice.
Roger Dudler
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Nathan Gervais <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> [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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