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Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page
AlexP:
The current website is in svn if you want it for content. To make it live, do the replacement, then Zagor is the man to talk to as GodEator says :)
macku:
OK, thanks for info. I will contact him soon.
DancemasterGlenn:
Back to the topic of subversion... in the final version of the new page, the links at the bottom will be back, yes? The "last four weeks"/"twelve months"/"since 3.0"? I find I use those a lot. It might also be good to make the title in the subversion dropdown (on the top left after it rolls out) a clickable link to go to an expanded version of this list (similar to how it works now). This would be helpful since the proposed dropdown, while gorgeous, won't be leaving room to view many entries at a time. Actually, since this is the case, which behavior would be better?
1) method proposed above, similar to now: a certain number of changes are viewed in the dropdown, the title "subversion" can be clicked to go to a page of expanded subversion logs
2) a method could also be implemented for the dropdown that adds "back"/"next" buttons at the bottom, so the dropdown could display a fixed number of changes at a time, but could be navigated through easily as a subpage without having to expand any further
Hope either of those are helpful suggestions. 2 actually seems like it would be more elegant, since an extra page wouldn't be needed. If my wording was at all confusing, I can clarify better.
j8048188:
--- Quote from: macku on April 21, 2009, 06:16:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: j8048188 on April 20, 2009, 01:42:42 PM ---when I click on the manufacturer's name, the picture stays on the last one chosen. would it be possible to have the pic change to the first one on the new manufacturer's row?
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It is possible but I don't think this is necessary. Why do load image player that you didn't chosen yet?
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When you click on a manufacturer and not a player, you could load the manufacturer's logo. I am not sure how licensing would be on this, though.
linuxstb:
This style of site seems to have gained momentum, but I need to say that I don't like various aspects of it - overall I think it's trying to be too clever, and we should try to keep it simple.
Firstly, the drop-down menus at the top. The current left menu on the site (which easily fits into all Rockbox sites - the main website, the wiki, the forums and the themes site) fits nicely on most screens, and gives users a list of all the main sections of the site without needing to click.
But this is a pet-hate of mine - websites are not desktop applications, so don't need a menu bar across the top...
Secondly, the list of targets. I find that because the "menu" across the top of the page does things when I hover, I expect the target menus to do the same. It feels very inconsistent for those two elements to behave so differently.
Also, the terms "iPod 1G", "iPod 2G" etc have proved in the past to be the cause of confusion - people commonly read "2G" to mean "2GB". That's why the site currently avoids those abbreviations, and use the fuller "1st gen" etc terms. "iPod Nano 1G" is especially confusing.
It also seems that we will soon run out of space as we support more and more targets from different manufacturers (or if we give the models we do support clearer names).
I also don't like the "noscript" version of that target list - a scrollbar in the middle of a page?
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should keep the existing layout - there are many good things about the proposal. It just doesn't feel as usable as the existing site.
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