Borut and Ari,
Thanks a lot for offering help with site design! I also appreciate
the focus on usability. I'll comment about navigation in a separate
message, here is general comments on the design.
* I like the idea of having disjoint content modules
* I do not like the look of the preview (I understand this was just
to demonstrate the idea). We may need to come up with alternative skins.
* Officially we are called "Apache Cayenne", even though we are still
in the incubator. While we are at it, we may update the logo with the
word "Apache".
* In the header we may need to incorporate the incubator logo (to be
replaced with Apache official logo on graduation).
* All documentation (probably 70% of the entire site) is served via
Wiki. So it would be nice to come up with a common look between the
site and Confluence. Just to give a feel of what's involved, here is
a Velocity template used by Confluence auto-export plugin to render
static HTML contents:
http://people.apache.org/~aadamchik/confluence-template.txt
* It would be nice to display at least the titles of the latest news
items on the front page.
Andrus
On Sep 9, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 09/09/2006, at 4:27 AM, Borut Bolčina wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> have a look at http://svarog.homeip.net/cayenne/
>>
>> Most work is to be invested in documentation section. Properly
>> divided
>> sections, PDF versions, ...
>> Also the right side is empty.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome.
>
> I think this is an improvement on the current site, but we could do
> better in some ways:
>
> * the design should be css based, not a table based design. This
> will make it much easier to reskin and update in the future. It
> also makes it easier to add content over time. A css based design
> is better for accessibility reasons and better for printing.
>
> * it shouldn't be done in Dreamweaver which leaves lots of ugly
> javascript behind
>
> * I don't like navigation which runs in several directions on the
> site. Here we have primary navigation running across from the top
> left, which is limiting in its ability to expand to add new items.
> Then navigation at the top right which also runs across, but to the
> left, and finally navigation on the right which runs vertically.
> The problems I have are:
>
> - why are there three sets of navigation?
> - what happens as we want to add navigation to levels 2 and 3 and
> they collide in the middle on small screens?
> - what happens on small screens when you can't see the navigation
> to the right?
>
>
> I'd like to work with Borut and the advances he has made, and
> furthermore to sponsor our graphic designer to work on the design
> with us and the community. His work can be seen here: http://
> www.brucemartin.net/
>
>
> Cheers
> Ari Maniatis
>
>
>
>
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