[maemo-community] maemo.org redesign

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
> ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Tim <tim at samoff.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi, proposal for the hybrid solution:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.maemo.org/images/8/80/Maemo-org-joint-mockup.png
>>> I see what you're going for, but it seems   like a LOT of content  
>>> for a
>>> "home" page.
>>
>> Yeah, my initial impression was that it's fairly heavyweight and a  
>> lot
>> of information. Admittedly, this could be something improved with  
>> some
>> professional design skill.
>
> Fair enough, I tried my best.  :)  I still think a dynamic page  
> showing
> the real stuff is far more interesting for everybody than a  
> intermediate
> "Welcome" page, but I seem to be the only one seeing that.

I'm more in favor of a dynamic page myself, but I'm mostly steering  
clear of this discussion lacking a particularly strong opinion on the  
subject. ;)

> Would it be fair to ask that the home for anonymous users would be  
> like
> you are proposing but then the one you see as logged in user and that
> /home would be more in the dynamic way? For regular visitors this type
> of page is much more useful than having to go through each dynamic  
> page
> every morning to see what's up.


This seems reasonable to me, though we'd need logins that last for  
some appreciable amount of time first.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair