Gentoo Website Redesign - the community effort

myuser · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 218

It is often said, 'A horse designed by committee turns into a camel.'

Well, I happen to like camels; they can run pretty fast, keep going for a long time, and they also have great grins.

Gentoo web wants a redesign and is holding a competition to decide the winner, I am sure quite a few groups will be entering, but hey this open source, what about an open design brainstorm.

and who better to contribute wacky ideas for the site then the OTW crew.

Questions such as;

Is purple in or out?

If in what shade should it be? websafe or is that old hat now?

Are custom icons the way forward or text links css'd up?

Is that logo eating up too much screen real estate?

Should the logo be re-branded (what about the T-Shirts)?

Are funky DHTML navs in, or just go with the sprawling current navigation that will work with text only browsers, but requires a degree in link hunting to often find the info you want?

Are the shop items a distraction? Should the EShop actually gain more emphasis?

Should Verdana font actually be used (It is from MS but it does look sweet)?

And, finally where is Larry the Cow? or should he remain burger pate, and a new mascot bought in - Is it time for Gazer the Gentoo?

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

logo and colour is fine and i think the custom icons is a very good idea, we want a big "G" taking the piss out of the "e" for internet explorer
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tdennist · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 145

I think we need to keep the site text-browser friendly, as I often use links2 to browse the site for information when I'm installing Gentoo.
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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

We need a larry the cow comic strip, maybe something daily or weekly to read.
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RedDawn · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

Then. umm.. why dont we stop talking. and get to work! :lol:

myuser · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 218

It is a brainstorming contribution, just post ideas

Ceapollo · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Funky Town

I think we need lots on lots of animated gif's can't go wrong with that :wink:

. Maybe we should make the site look like microsoft and Yahoo! cluttered to hell. Ummm almost done. Just needs one more thing. Oh i got it some dancing and singing animated pengians!!!

Now that is a webpage if I have ever seen one!
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tdennist · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 145

Yeah, animated gifs are the shiz-at. What we need is a geocities page with a black background with stars, and a rotating 3D "Email" gif.
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KungFuHamster · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

Screw Larry.

What Gentoo.org needs is...

MORE COWBELL!

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homeobocks · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:

Purple is totally in. I'd switch to ^Arch Linux^ if the purple went.

It's a little thing called "style." Look it up.
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abzs2k · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject:

Make the website style like a slick gnome interface.
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Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

Someone might create a XHTML strict html document and we would submit CSS style sheets for it, like CSS Zen Garden.

myuser · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 218

>>> Make the website style like a slick gnome interface.

I was thinking tech, with a twist as well, good idea.

Just as long as there aren't any of those photos of people staring into screens, pointing something else out to another person who both wear cheesy grins and ties, with an overlay of graphic nonsense.

Unless it was done as parody.

apeitheo · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 222

Personally I believe the Gentoo.org page should look nice, but also be very imformative. Don't cover it all up in nice, neat little graphics, that take away from the information. It still needs to be compatible with lynx and whatnot, so that those who are doing an install without a graphical browser, can get help if needed. Purple really isn't my color, but as long as the information is there, it passes my test.

ed0n · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject:

Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

They are only accepting png images. No XHTML + CSS. So I guess the this entry won't be accepted. :twisted:

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blaksaga · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:15 am Post subject:

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