[maemo-community] WebDesign improvements

[From: Tim]

Hi,

Just FYI, the sparkline charting could be done this way:

http://keith-wood.name/gChart.html

> I gave an example of the current "small template" usage...

Could you wireframe it for Glaubert?

> It seems when I said that you could get dynamic content from the wiki,
> itT, and the maemo-user mailing list, you took me literally.

I like the idea of keeping the single-column dynamic content on the main
Support page (two columns makes it too busy for me).

Tim


On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:01:21 +0100, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
> Hi Glaubert,
> 
> Glaubert Oliveira wrote:
>> ICONS - 
>> 
>> I`ve changed some icons colors like "online" and "click to install" to
>> green, rescaled the "Add Aplication"button and have created some others
>> 
>> link: http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Icons.png
> 
> As Tim pointed out, the spelling of "Install" is off, but that's a minor
> issue.
> 
> Could you break out the icons into individual pngs, so that Niels and
> Henri can start using them, please?
> 
> For the person templates at the bottom (at least that's what I think is
> there), I fear we've misunderstood each other again.
> 
> I gave an example of the current "small template" usage - a comment on
> an application. In the comment (old version, example I gave), there is
> the small avatar, name and online status. In addition, but independent
> from what I mean when I say "small template", there was the application
> rating the person gave, and a comment, with icons for deleting/the
> comment or marking it as spam.
> 
> Now what I was hoping for was something small which would include some
> or all of the following elements:
> 
> Name/user name
> Link to profile
> Avatar
> Online status
> Karma
> 
> which could be reused nicely in this circumstance.
> 
> The large template is completely unrelated to application comments, so
> it won't have any star rating for an application, nor will it be
> associated with a comment usually.
> 
> The information required in the large template is:
> 
> Big avatar
> Name/user name
> Link to profile
> Online status
> Karma
> 
> And we also have a lot of optional information that could be added:
> 
> Projects
> Interests
> Description
> Karma breakdown by category
> Joined since...
> 
>> DOWNLOAD - 
>> 
>> The main update for the Download page is basically the "Download
>> history" under the screenshot of the app to be downloaded. 
>> 
>> it displays a graphic showing how many times in the current month the
>> app has been downloaded (if the user wants to see the hole Download
>> history he would just click in the link under the graphic ). I put in
>> the layout the "person widget" too and it shows the most important
>> content such as: comment about the app, star rating, photo, name and
date
>> 
>> link: http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Download_with_rating.png
> 
> Would it be possible to communicate similar information, with a smaller
> graphic?
> 
> I don't think people really care about the specific number of downloads,
> but they might be interested in the trend. Or perhaps what's interesting
> is the percentile of the project in garage (are we in the top 1%? 2%?
> etc). If you remove all the text, and replace the big curve by something
> like a Tufte "sparkline" (ref:
> http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR) or
> just a number on a scale of 0 to 100 (colour coded, perhaps, from blue
> to red for "undiscovered diamond in the rough" to "have to get this now!"
> 
> For the moment, you can leave aside whether it looks like what we have
> now, or whether it's possible technically to do right now, and come up
> with something both compact and communicative.
> 
>> PROFILE PAGE - 
>> 
>> In the personal profile I put a "Edit Profile" button and gave it a
>> different arrange. Now theres is a kind of graphic wich shows the
>> "Community person activity" by displaying all his involvement int the
>> community. By this way we can measure and quickly see a scale about
>>  quantity only*
>> 
>> link: http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Profile_page.png
> 
> The box in the Profile page is more like what I was thinking of for the
> person template - some information there might not be useful for general
> consumption in other pages like the front page, but hopefully this will
> give you a better idea of what I mean by that template.
> 
> The profile page looks good! The bar chart probably doesn't need to be
> so big, though - and I'm missing some of the dynamic content that is
> currently on the profile page (recent blog posts, comments, mails,
> discussion, links to bugzilla bugs, mediawiki edits, etc.). Perhaps
> scaling down the bar chart will give you enough space to put this
> content on one side of the page, and the karma breakdown on the other?
> 
>> SUPPORT PAGE - 
>> 
>> Some suggestions have been made here and Tim has helped me on that. we
>> split in too pages, the first one shows the basic dynamic content and
>> the second the result of the research.
>> 
>> link (1): http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Sv_Support_.png
>> 
>> link (2): http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Sv_Support_2.png
> 
> It seems when I said that you could get dynamic content from the wiki,
> itT, and the maemo-user mailing list, you took me literally. Obviously,
> those are 3 different possible sources of information there, and they
> should probably be broken up into 3 different blocks on the page.
> 
> Otherwise, it looks like we're getting there! Thanks for everything.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.

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