<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta content="Group-Office 2.18" name="GENERATOR"></head><body><p>Like I said on itT, I think this is a great start. A couple of comments, though...</p>
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<li>Why not just center the "Big Links"? Is there something planned for the left side? (It could be the "About maemo.org" section, of course, leaving a little more room to expand the below items -- e.g., if "Latest Add-ons" and "News & Events" spanned two columns and the rest remained on three...)</li>
<li>I think that the page would work just fine without the faded "ae" graphic on the page background. The design would be just as effective with a white background.</li>
<li>I think the header needs more space. The INDT guys were supposed to create a styleguide for the new maemo.org logo -- which, I was assuming would contain padding info for the logo. In any case, the logo here needs more breathing room.</li>
<li>I'm not a big fan of keeping the site "boxed." Yes, it can still be fluid this way, but I'd really like to see some designs that opened the entire site up. (If I have some time...) :p</li>
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<p>The colors are cool. I like the iconography as well... Nice work, Andrew!</p>
<p>Tim</p>
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<strong>Subject: </strong>Re: maemo.org redesign<br />
<strong>From: </strong>Andrew Flegg <andrew@bleb.org><br />
<strong>To: </strong>"List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
<strong>Date: </strong>09/28/2008 2:59 pm<br />
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew@bleb.org> wrote:<br />
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> Here're my thoughts. No mockup yet; I'm no graphic designer, so it'll<br />
> take me a while.<br />
<br />
I've attempted to do something with Inkscape:<br />
<br />
http://bleb.org/software/maemo/maemo-org_mockup.png<br />
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Key features:<br />
<br />
> == Small links ==<br />
> Pervasive across *.maemo.org. [snip]<br />
<br />
And I *mean* pervasive. The overall outline and top-bar should be<br />
present on *.maemo.org sites. I've used the term 'Add-ons' rather than<br />
'Downloads', because things added to the tablet'll be coming through<br />
Application Manager rather than directly downloaded. "Extras" is nice,<br />
but too general at the top-level.<br />
<br />
> == Big links ==<br />
> Task oriented boxes; nicely rounded rectangles, with graduated fills,<br />
> white text, a glossy look and lovely icons; [snip]<br />
<br />
These are to guide people who end-up here from Google or<br />
maemo.nokia.com. High-level, simple English. They'll go to the level 1<br />
pages the same as the pervasive links at the top.<br />
<br />
> == Swarming ==<br />
> Below the above, we show the current activity in the community. This<br />
> is NOT just the latest content (seriously, most of the time that's not<br />
> that useful), but instead shows rolling averages of things like the<br />
> wiki, Bugzilla and the mailing lists; and top-rated news items. This<br />
> is to try and capture where the community is currently focused.<br />
<br />
The formatting of the portlets capturing this swarm information is<br />
sub-optimal, but Inkscape ain't the best for doing DTP. Hopefully, you<br />
can get the gist and look past the over-simplified detail.<br />
<br />
The portlets correspond to the easy-to-use buttons above, + an about<br />
box + news & events. Content is syndicated from a VARIETY of sources,<br />
weighted by activity/newness/etc. and sorted into the buckets. For<br />
example, the "latest community activity" is showing threads from<br />
maemo-users, maemo-community and pages which have been recently<br />
changed a few times in Category:Users and Category:Communnity in the<br />
wiki.<br />
<br />
Similarly, latest developer activity aggregates content from<br />
-developers and Category:Development in the wiki.<br />
<br />
These lists should be better styled, possibly including dates - and<br />
maybe even mini-icons as bullet points to represent the source of the<br />
information.<br />
<br />
Anyway, this is close to what's in my head at the moment. If nothing<br />
else, hopefully it'll inspire some discussion.<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance,<br />
<br />
Andrew<br />
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