I also like the idea, but please no color switching. There is indeed a color switcher module for Drupal, but it may confuse visitors a lot, I don't know any major website that would change color scheme on regular basis. Besides, it would require us to update also Wiki theme (a lot of work) in order to keep it consistent with the homepage (we are not moving Wiki to Drupal, right?).
My idea: lets put the image inside some kind of a box or frame, so that even if it has completely different color scheme it would stay consistent with the theme. Here is a sample (just started wokring on it): http://drupalready.com/uploads/2009-08-15-225307_1280x800_scrot.png What do you think?
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:04 PM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our current one, lack one critical thing: art.
Inkscape is an art tool, but these are just standard web sites that would fit any kind of entity.
I propose that our web site's front page should incorporate a large enough image, created in Inkscape, at least as well done as our About screens and ideally better. Like a banner, perhaps integrated with the "Inkscape" heading.
We could even rotate them once per month or so, if we find enough good candidates (and there are plenty of good Inkscape art for example on Deviantart, we can just contact directly authors of nice pieces offering them this free publicity :). Of course this requires that someone takes the responsibility to choose a piece of art (I don't think we should do monthly competitions, it's too much overhead), nicely crop it to our format and otherwise integrate it with the web site, perhaps even changing the color scheme of the site to match the new front page art piece. http://www.inkscape.org