Hi all,
I've been reading the side-discussion about the current state of the Inkscape website and figured I should speak up.
from Alexandre Prokoudine in the 'Free Desktop Release' thread:
In fact, our custom website CMS is rather unmaintained. Several people volunteered to create a new website based on drupal or possibly something else, and we never heard back from them.
This was me and my colleague Young Hahn. We work for Development Seed, a small web shop in Washington, DC, with a focus on using & contributing to open-source projects. Young and I are both designers who rely on Inkscape for the majority of our graphics work. You can see the kinds of things Inkscape is helping us do at http://developmentseed.org/projects
Earlier in the year we chatted with Josh Andler about how the current website works and what a Drupal redesign/migration might look like. We suggested Drupal since that is what we specialize in - Young, in addition to being a kick-ass designer, is also a highly respected and experienced Drupal developer.
Since our initial chat with Josh we've been letting other projects distract us. However, recently I've been speaking to Young and our CEO, Eric Gundersen, about scheduling some real time for this and, if the community is willing, we'd love to get started soon.
One important aspect of the site that we think needs work is the information architecture. We propose reducing the main navigation menu to:
- News - Download - Documentation - Resources - Gallery - Community - Development
I would like to open a discussion about people's thoughts on this, and perhaps get into some specifics regarding what pages/sections would need to be consolidated, rethought, or perhaps eliminated in order to do this.
I have some ideas regarding a new visual design as well, but think that can wait until these more fundemental decisions are made.
Thanks!
AJ Ashton