Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Mittwoch den, 9. Oktober 2002, um 21:37, schrieb Pascal Bourguignon:

> If we really  need to change the  look of the GNUstep web,  and if you
> really want  to impress the GNUstep  logo, perhaps with  a very light,
> enlarged version  of the logo in  background would be  enough, and the
> text over it could have a more classical layout.
>
>
> > But it is of course not all wrong what you and the others said. The
> > design will go through an overhaul the next days and I try to bring all
> > the advice "under one hat" as they say in Germany.
>
> I   don't   see   anything   wrong   with   the   style   of   current
> http://www.gnustep.org/   Even   better  is   the   text  version   at
> http://www.gnustep.org/lynxversion.html

Background images are lame ;-) and you need to make them quite large to 
avoid pattering, what looks *really* awkward. The purpose of the not so 
usual layout is just to look not so usual and worn out. When I came to 
the GNUstep website for my first time years ago, it had a appealing 
design (compared to the standards of websites around this time), it 
didn't look just like everybody's website around this time (standard 
grey background, times fontface, lots of blinking texts and animated 
email icons - I hope you remember). If GNUstep's website would have 
looked like every other or worse, I wouldn't have bothered with GNUstep 
at all. The FIRST IMPRESSION IS IMPORTANT, today GNUstep's website 
design wouldn't scare me away anymore, might it be as ugly as possible 
(I don't say it is, it is just suboptimal) since now I know the inner 
values of GNUstep. But put yourself in the position of somebody, who 
comes along the GNUstep website for the very first time - this is my 
point - people judge from the look. And while it might suit your needs 
perfectly, I don't think that the lynxversion would attract crowds of 
people.

So times are changing and the GNUstep website looks a little aged over 
the years. It could need a facelift...

Well, my proposal was a first shot and I didn't say it is perfect 
(otherwise I wouldn't have asked you)

Lars

> > more to come soon...
> >
> > greetings, Lars
>
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