On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 02:46 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 8/25/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
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Hi fellas,
I think that we should look at other projects that are successful and learn from them. I agree with both of you on your points, but dont' want to rehash and nitpick on your previous post-crossposts.
I do think that Inkscape is scaling to the point where a website redesign is in order. And, I have noticed how many projects are doing their sites in a more streamlined fashion.
Hula has a nice simple site which is attractive to users and developers: http://hula-project.org/Hula_Server
I've been thinking about this approach for sometime in basically converting our entire site to mediawiki and tweaking the stylesheets and making main pages require user/pass. Hula does a great job of this
Another great example is: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
However, my point is we are at a time when we need to think about the different tracks of users. As much as we needed the testers list and community, I think the website needs to be redesigned and rethought in terms of being the most general portal for people to the project.
From there, it should splinter into other groups. I would go so far as
to have a user, developer, tester tab even at the top to get ppl. into a more specific infrastructure about the site according to interest.
Right now we have way too many links on our menu and the main page is starting to become a mess.
Anyhow, Bulia, I think before more tweaks happen on the page, maybe you should pass them by people. Maybe changing all of these things would be the equivalent of me coming in and moving the toolbars around in inkscape without discussing with anyone -- I think a few ppl. would get miffed about this.
Anyhow, I think we really need to put much thought into the web redesign. I hope this contest goes well, but I must say that it is a bit ambitious for about 20 days of work and all from an outside group of designers.
Personally, I think we could just put up a mediawiki and shuttle our content into that and make a nice simple interface for ppl. to understand our site.
Jon