On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:04 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our current one, lack one critical thing: art.
Agreed. I have already mentioned to Chris about how we used to have the screenshots randomly show on the homepage. I do think that having this back again would be great in addition to your suggestion below.
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. Such a person must have good design sense and be ready to spend some time regularly on updating our web site.
I think that the banner/header idea rocks. I would go ahead and initiate contact with a some DA users and line up a dozen or so images immediately so we can figure out the best format/look and be good for a year basically.
Also, since we are in Feature Freeze and will not be seeing any more UI changes, I will be uploading the screenshots for 0.47 that I lined up over the weekend.
Cheers, Josh