Hello Design Team, Since there are a lot of information and mockups about how to get to the new spin website, but not about the layout of the spin website itself. I want to share with you some of my needs as a spin maintainer for FEL, which I believe might be for other spin maintainers. Before I get started, I want to emphasize that FEL's website should look as professional as possible. This is because I want to give those companies that are willing to collaborate with us the feeling that FEL is a mature platform and they can trust us with their contribution and time. That said, there are 4 important aspects what the website should convey: * information for upstream 20% : showing them how their software is being treated and what they are missing if their software is not part of our collection * information for users 30%: basic things : download urls, who are we behind the spin, some screenshots of the software, future events, event slides, photos on events reflecting our maturity, spin's portfolio, Main highlights of the tools, history of the spin (helps the user to choose F-n or F-n+1), spin achievements in real life * information for our contributors 10% : slides templates, our spin fedora hosted website, its tickets, next event, a place to post their publications, developer section * spin portfolio 40%: this is the most important part: It reflects all the key features of all the software under the spin's umbrella and not only copy-paste description of the software. It is accompanied by screenshots, and different solutions for usage. If these 4 aspects are respected, do marketing for the spin should not be difficult (by anyone, even those who have no clue what the spin does). The contents of the four items will be produced by the spin's team and not design team. I would however request that the template being prepared for the spin be less geeky and less crowdy by unnecessary artwork such as gradients etc. As far as I am concerned, Shakthi and I are pushing hard with so that FEL's opensource solutions meet real life user requirements. Our spin technical niche obliges us to opt for a template which tags us as a leader in our field and a EDA distributor such as these: http://www.synopsys.com/home.aspx http://www.mentor.com/ http://www.cadence.com/us/pages/default.aspx I don't know how much time you have allocated to the spin website design, however I have once designed FEL's old page based on Mairin's mockup (F-8 to F-10 timeframe) http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Projects/Fedora%20Spins/Wireframes/spindetailsmock4.png I have migrated (during F-10 timeframe) FEL's website contents on JohnPalmeri's initial moksha like fedora community webpage: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ I have tweaked it from right-to left so that all the pages can be viewed from _any_ browser. It is important that the spin website can also be viewed under Internet Explorer as well, because some corporate companies especially the managers, marketers and CEOs run windows and they are the ones to seduce for ensure mass deployment of FEL. I would encourage you guys (especially for the spin website : MYSPIN.fedoraproject.org) to opt a template similar to FEL'S website and improve it. It is clean and easy to get contents in without being a web designer. I'm looking forward to be a beta user of the new website. Cheers, Chitlesh _______________________________________________ Fedora-electronic-lab-list mailing list Fedora-electronic-lab-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list
