Inkscape website re-design contest closed
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
1) http://www.ciberirmandade.org/gatonegro/var/inkweb/ 2) http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt1/ 3) http://www.deviantart.com/view/22467478/ 4) http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt2/ 5) http://www.deviantart.com/view/23778224/
-Josh
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
That's my vote, with a modified color scheme and perhaps a different font for the menu...
-Josh
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:53, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
5 looks nice to me..
Craig
I much prefer 5 to any others
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:53 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
- http://www.ciberirmandade.org/gatonegro/var/inkweb/
- http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt1/
- http://www.deviantart.com/view/22467478/
- http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt2/
- http://www.deviantart.com/view/23778224/
-Josh
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Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
5, with 4 very close if the monospace font in the left column is changed to a proportional one (or even better, if it's left at the browser's setting).
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
#5 is my first choice. To my non-artistic eye it is the cleanest and easiest to read.
#4 would be my second choice. A three column layout is great if you need places to put stuff. ;) But I think it would need a total font rework to be as clean and coherent as #5.
Aaron Spike
I do prefer 5... =)
On 11/1/05, Aaron and Sarah Spike <spike@...749...> wrote:
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
#5 is my first choice. To my non-artistic eye it is the cleanest and easiest to read.
#4 would be my second choice. A three column layout is great if you need places to put stuff. ;) But I think it would need a total font rework to be as clean and coherent as #5.
Aaron Spike
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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:33 -0600, Aaron and Sarah Spike wrote:
#4 would be my second choice. A three column layout is great if you need places to put stuff. ;)
That's what I *don't* like about 4 really -- the three columns makes it kinda cluttered and less obvious what to look at first. It also make it look -- to me -- like something a portal CMS thingy just spewed out (this effect is probably due to the "box" layout in the sidebars)
On 11/1/05, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
#5, if my vote counts
Alexandre
What does the green flag signify ? It's really front and center - have you considered even eliminating that image block - I'm not sure what purpose it serves since the ink bottle "brand" logo is up top, and the intro section has the changing example images (which I think is an excellent feature giving users a "new" image each time they access the site).
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 11/1/05, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
#5, if my vote counts
Alexandre
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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:53 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
I also like # 5 the best, though I think we should be using "inkscape blue" rather than that green. Also not sure what the significance of the flag is supposed to be...
-mental
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
(Disclaimer: I made #5)
Several people have questioned the significance of the flag. There is none. (I'm a lazy guy - the flag was an image I had already created days before and it was convenient.) That entire image block is basically just a placeholder for a more relevant image that I imagine would be either random (like a crop of a screenshot or a work of art created with inkscape) or updated every once in a while (like a crop of the about screen, say). I probably should have explained this earlier, sorry.
As for green-vs-blue, if you think blue is more appropriate it's not hard to change. I just like the colour green, so I used that :D.
Glad you guys like it anyways :) (I like #2, BTW)
-AJ
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, AJ Ashton wrote:
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:21:57 -0500 From: AJ Ashton <aj.ashton@...400...> To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape website re-design contest closed
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
(Disclaimer: I made #5)
days before and it was convenient.) That entire image block is
Unless you are really clever with your sytylesheets (put the image near the end of the page but use stylesheets to position it later) I suspect that image block could slow down the loading of the text on the page for users on horribly slow dialup connections who just want to quickly read the text and get to the downloads. (On the rare occassions I view the site using dialup the screenshots already slow things down significantly.) Which reminds me, it is great the way how you have placed the download link clearly and prominently near the top of the page. Functionally your design is excellent and it isn't bad looking either.
I do like how the layout is scalable (unlike #2) and how the logo and title are prominently on the top left and a search box is prominently on the top right.
As for green-vs-blue, if you think blue is more appropriate it's not hard to change. I just like the colour green, so I used that :D.
I think we had a bit of a blue theme going for Inkscape but perhaps people want to change that? I'd prefer to keep some shade of blue but more importantly I think it is very important for links to be blue (and preferably underlined too, for usability).
Glad you guys like it anyways :) (I like #2, BTW)
#1 Is artistically interesting but I don't like the use of frames (even though it isn't actually using the frames tag it looks like an iframe). If we were doing print work I'd want to talk to this guy as the page is simple but very striking. A little more variation in the sidebar might make it easier to distinguish the categories (not links) from the subcategories (which are links).
#2 The fixed size layout of #2 puts me off so much I am probably not giving the design and colour scheme a fair evaluation.
#3 If as I suspect this one was created using Inkscape for all those gradients and decorations I will be well impressed. I happen to like Red a lot and think this site looks excellent but it is quite a radical departure from what we currently have and the layout isn't great.
#4 Busy as a bee. Good design but the three column layout feels a bit more complicated and cramped even on a large screen (so it wont look great on a smaller screen).
#5 may not be revolutionary but it is evolutionary and it takes the current design and improves it in various ways. Green or blue (so long as we have blue links) I'd go with this design too.
- Alan
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:44 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
Unless you are really clever with your sytylesheets (put the image near the end of the page but use stylesheets to position it later) I suspect that image block could slow down the loading of the text on the page for users on horribly slow dialup connections who just want to quickly read the text and get to the downloads. (On the rare occassions I view the site using dialup the screenshots already slow things down significantly.)
Not if the image is applied using CSS rather than an img element... if it were me I'd probably put "Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor" in a h2, hide the text and apply the background image to that. Which is the more semantic solution anyway, because the image is really just presentational.
[Damn, I thought I was replying to reply to list - why is this list manager broken?]
Site 1 is too sterile; too simple.
Site 2 is the cleanest with the most distinctive design but I'm not so sure about the background unless it does something useful. It could grow on me though. The site certainly scales well.
Site 3 has a a horrible choice of colors. Kind of too Christmasy. Red text on red background? Am I supposed to be able read that without squinting. Low contrast text-background combinations are bad, bad, bad.
Site 4 is the easiest to read and, along with site 2, very uncluttered and easy to scan visually. A Website's first priority is to be informative, not just be an art project. If I can't read it, I won't read it. I can read this site easily without work. This site is also just good art.
Site 5 is very clean also. It looks like so many other sites and so doesn't really stand out.
I'll have to go with 4 as the clear choice for first place, with 2 as a close second, and 5 coming in third.
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
This would be my first choice, with several changes: a smaller header, Inkscape blue instead of yellow, thiner right columns and a proportional font in the left column.
This would be a second choice but with a larger header and larger fonts. And of course, something meaningful instead of that flag.
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:53 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
I like 2, except for the annoying fixed position background. But it looks like 5 has already won :)
BTW, there was someone who posted about width -- I rarely keep my browser window more than 600 pixels wide. I may not be skinny, but I like my browser windows that way ;)
--Ted
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:53 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
5.
I do think though that this file should now be reworked for another round. I like the sparseness of this design, but think it can be pushed more to be organized still better.
Also, the menu really needs to be though about...
Jon
--- "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
- http://www.ciberirmandade.org/gatonegro/var/inkweb/
- http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt1/
- http://www.deviantart.com/view/22467478/
- http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt2/
- http://www.deviantart.com/view/23778224/
-Josh
4, with a blue version of the header, and a nicer font in the left hand menu.
if not, 5's pretty nice too.
Sim
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2005/11/2, John Cliff <simarilius@...36...>:
--- "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> wrote:
Hey guys,
Voting time! After the extension of the contest, we now have 5 submissions for the re-design and all entrants know that we may ask them to rework things a bit. Heads up, two of the entries (the ones hosted on deviantart) are not live previews, but just mock-ups currently.
- http://www.ciberirmandade.org/gatonegro/var/inkweb/
- http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt1/
- http://www.deviantart.com/view/22467478/
- http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/pt2/
- http://www.deviantart.com/view/23778224/
-Josh
First: 5 without the flag. Second: 4 with a smaller top, and adding a screenshot.
Jose Hevia
participants (17)
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Aaron and Sarah Spike -
AJ Ashton -
Alan Horkan -
Alexandre Prokoudine -
Craig Bradney -
DJA -
Iuriatan Muniz -
John Cliff -
John Taber -
Jon Phillips -
Jonathan Leighton -
Jose Hevia -
Joshua A. Andler -
MenTaLguY -
Nicu Buculei -
Roel Schroeven -
Ted Gould