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

[Stefan Urbanek]

Just note for those who do not remeber...

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gnustep.org

And to add my opinion ... it should be bright not dark.

Stefan

On 2002-10-09 23:18:32 +0200 Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf 
<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:

> 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 - peop!
le 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > __Pascal_Bourguignon__                   http://www.informatimago.com/
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     The name is Baud,...... James Baud.
> >
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