Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page

[AlexP]

I don't know about technical aspects, but I imagine it would be a great idea to do a mockup first - it would be awful to spend ages coding it to find out that those with the say hate it

There are no timelines that I am aware of.

[safetydan]

One thing to keep in mind is that the Rockbox page must be accessible to screen-reading software. We have a lot blind users and making the page unusable for them would be bad. I know you can make Flash accessible for blind users, but it's probably easier just to avoid it. Similar issues with the shiny JavaScript libraries like Prototype and Scriptaculous.

If you can make it shiny and accessible then you might be on to something.

[Llorean]

Another note: Some of us navigate the page on cellphones and PDAs to check SVN status, get to the IRC logs, or take a look at the build server logs among other things. While the current pages aren't ideal for this, they're fairly lightweight and work (at least for me).

I do think there's a benefit to keeping the pages as lightweight as possible, when possible.

[Angyman]

Are we talkin about a redesign of the frontpage or of everything...  Or what dou you mean if you say frontpage??? sorry if i misunderstood something. For PDAs and cellphones there could be easily adressed a specialiced frontpage...

[safetydan]

A well designed site should just fallback gracefully regardless of the capabilities of the client. So there should be no need for a special page just for PDAs, etc.

[Angyman]

Not always... Sometimes Pictures help the user to understand whats going on in this crazy world ;-) (Sorry i stop talking now)

[Llorean]

It shouldn't be to hard to get the user agent, and present modified versions of the page, at least.

[sanusart]

Is there still a need for redesigning or it's over?

[GodEater]

We never got any submissions, but we're still open for suggestions.

[sanusart]

Good, I'll be glad to try.

[GodEater]

Can't wait to see your suggestions

[sanusart]

:-)

What color palette should I use, the current one [blueish] or I thought maybe black and yellow because of the cabbie2 becoming the new default theme, or maybe the goal should be to make something that looks good?

[terrence1019]

The rockbox website should be Novice-friendly. That is to say, if someone wants to code, there should be a nice big button that leads him to a page that contains a lot of easy-to-use info on how to start porting. It should also be more competitive, with Badges used as incentive for porting.

[sanusart]

As I understood from reading this tread:

less images + friendly layout = less bandwidth & satisfied users that can find their way around

Thats the point but I'd like to know what colors I can use for the start and should the page be 100% width or more modern, centered 780px width.

[psycho_maniac]

I really like the colors of the site right now.