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Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page
yapper:
--- Quote from: saratoga on April 25, 2009, 01:24:43 PM ---Do we really want SVN commits hidden by default on the new site? I like the idea of showing how active our project is on the front page.
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I agree - to me this is more important than wiki or mailing list activity.
Note: all three links in the top right of the work-in-progress page currently have 'subscribe' misspelled in the mouse-over text.
psycho_maniac:
yes i love LOVE the svn progress. thats the first thing i look at before i do anything on the site. although i dont mind the drop down menu i can just click that click it again to hide it and go along my way
--- Quote from: soap on April 25, 2009, 01:00:52 PM ---How do I create photos for missing targets?
Is there a procedure?
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hope this helps
--- Quote from: macku on April 24, 2009, 05:08:26 AM ---I send all layout files to Zagor and he will start slowly implementing it.
Creating flexible layout is *really* hard and I don't have any good experience with it. But if someone want to do it contact me or better Zagor.
My idea about missing players images.
How about another "art request" topic to create them?
Here is a background and here you can check missing players. Put player on background and post image inside topic. Remember to add small glow to player. And write inside topic with player image you want create (in case someone also want do it).
And Toshiba X is now S model so it is *missing* :)
PS: Like GodEater wrote:
--- Quote from: GodEater on April 02, 2009, 03:23:38 AM ---A web page design is not going to be 100% perfect for everyone
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robin0800:
Perhaps to avoid problems the text for the players should qualify version 1 only where no difference can be seen in the picture.
Alternatively perhaps a splash on top of the picture of versions supported.
pixelma:
--- Quote from: GodEater on April 24, 2009, 01:50:52 PM ---In the spirit of showing you can't please all the people all the time - I prefer macku's layouts to pixelma's modified versions. Sorry!
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Actually, I did not do these mockups just to hear they look better, or they don't. The reason for doing them was getting my point across and to have something to work with (and to show that I'm willing to spend time and thought too). As in e.g.: wouldn't it be better to not have such a white "band"? In my eyes it makes the page fall apart (and if I remember correctly, Llorean stated a similar concern earlier). While I agree that it's better if the site looks pleasent it's as important (in my eyes) to get information to the viewer. If the occasional visitor thinks "ah, this page looks nice but is there a wiki or an IRC channel?" (*) then I don't think it's a good page, especially for a project like this. *) Which he or she will only find when hovering over the menu bar (compared to just look at the left side menu now) - or manages to read to the bottom without getting distracted too much. Another one: is there a reason why the font is smaller in the three column and recent wiki and ml activity part - other than it wouldn't fit otherwise or needed to be even wider? Or is this a bug?
--- Quote from: BdN3504 on April 24, 2009, 05:49:30 AM ---wrong screens for the ondio fm are used as in this section of the manual then.
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Yes, the manual is wrong there too, for two reasons: not differentiate between the Recorders and Ondios needs less screenshot pictures in the manual source (only a few have to be doubled which show RTC or radio for e.g. the OndioSP or RecorderV1) - and until semi-recently the screenshots taken in the sim looked the same. That's not a reason to use the wrong one there, especially as you need different pictures anyways.
--- Quote from: macku on April 24, 2009, 05:08:26 AM ---Creating flexible layout is *really* hard and I don't have any good experience with it. But if someone want to do it contact me or better Zagor.
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Yes, unfortunately it is a dying art, because everyone uses the same display resolution and uses the browser in the same window size and forgot why HTML was invented... /me gets carried away
Maybe I'll have a try myself.
I'm trying to talk about specific things which I think could be improved and provide suggestions and reasons why I think this way. Unfortunately some of my previous questions remained unanswered...
Edit: looked at an older version first, so updated a point which became invalid now
GodEater:
--- Quote from: pixelma on April 28, 2009, 05:40:09 AM ---Actually, I did not do these mockups just to hear they look better, or they don't. The reason for doing them was getting my point across and to have something to work with (and to show that I'm willing to spend time and thought too). As in e.g.: wouldn't it be better to not have such a white "band"? In my eyes it makes the page fall apart (and if I remember correctly, Llorean stated a similar concern earlier).
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And I *like* the white band. It does break the page up, deliberately, and in a useful way. It provides a nice visual cue for arranging information in catergories without actually having to have some generic title slapped in the middle of the page.
--- Quote ---While I agree that it's better if the site looks pleasent it's as important (in my eyes) to get information to the viewer. If the occasional visitor thinks "ah, this page looks nice but is there a wiki or an IRC channel?" (*) then I don't think it's a good page, especially for a project like this. *)
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To be honest we're ALWAYS going to get users coming to the site who can't find these things. We do now. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen posts in the forums from our seasoned members having to point out the side menu to other people. Macku's redesign is likely to prove no better and no worse in that regard, and therefore I don't think this point is worth arguing over.
--- Quote ---or manages to read to the bottom without getting distracted too much.
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I don't find it distracting. Again I just think this is a case of not being able to please everyone. I personally feel that the current front page is distracting for the average new user, as it contains too much information. Our opinions differ. Sorry.
--- Quote --- Another one: is there a reason why the font is smaller in the three column and recent wiki and ml activity part - other than it wouldn't fit otherwise or needed to be even wider? Or is this a bug?
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Presumably this is because the current use for those sections in macku's design are going to contain more text. We can alter that if we decide those sections are inappropriate.
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