[maemo-community] Maemo.org site

[From: jamie at linuxuk.org]

Quoting Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org>:
> What I'm really hoping to see is the designer (you, Glaubert, Tim)
> explain your choices, defend your work, and debate about this with the
> community.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I can understand personal preference, black,  
white, grey, but if its backed up with 'a UI study here ...' or '90%  
of new users found ..." then it will win with me over against personal  
preference any day.

I personally like a balance of dark and light, too much light  
(although appealing initially) is a little eye straining when you deal  
with it all day, too dark somewhat depressing. For instance, I've had  
a designer look at my site, http://www.linuxuk.org and although I'm  
not completely happy with the scheme it does show a balance between  
the dark and light. The 'light' is what you focus on, the dark only  
frames it.

I think with the proposals, we have seen a pretty good layout and a  
good deliverance of information content, the colour scheme on the  
other hand is not what _I_ would like to see as the final design. I  
think we can agree now on the information that should be there and  
pretty much on the layout. Lets take this forward with a vote, ala the  
logo contest? and requst some more submissions, maybe supply the .psd  
(if its not gimp'ed) for folks to tweek as a template to 'design the  
Maemo web site?

> Cheers,
> Dave.

Regards,
Jamie.