Hi, Am 25.11.2010 22:19, schrieb Jef van Schendel: > Agreed on the rushing, that's definitely an issue. However I'm not sure a > compressed footer is the best thing to do, since that means we've got two > different ones and it'll be even harder to get them consistent across all > websites. Also, most of the links in your mockup footer are also in the > header onwww.fpo. If we only want to have those, we could also use the > existing menu bar somewhere, as in [1]. I rethought the footer-thing again and now I agree: such a footer *has* to be consistent. But using the header bar from www.fpo isn't a good thing because it overloads the whole site against the search field. > > I tried to get the search functionality front and center, without removing > the footer in [2]. We can easily make the footer stick to the bottom of the > screen, so it gets out of the way but is still there if you need it. By > putting the search bar right in the middle of the screen, it's still the > most prominent object on the page. > > Another option is to hide the footer a bit. I tried making that div's > position absolute and putting the top at 90%. Doing this, only the very top > part is visible on your screen and the rest when you scroll down. I'm not > sure that's a good option though, it looks quite strange, as if something > went wrong. Hiding the footer a bit is IMHO just like cutting it down like I did which has the same effect as I stated above. > > >> > The only additional function I'd add would be a link named "switch to >> > daily start page" or so, which updates the browser home page to a >> > start.fedoraproject.org variant as stated below. >> > >> > * start.fedoraproject.org >> > On this site I'd place things like RSS feeds, tweets, rotating photo >> > galleries etc. Something like a portal but only with aggregated content >> > so no daily maintenance would be needed. >> > Perhaps pushing planet.fpo unfiltered to this site should be rethought >> > since there are sometimes quite useless postings like "i have voted" or >> > so. Maybe someone should pick the 20-30 most "valuable" ones and tell >> > the blog owners about the fact that their posts will appear on >> > start.fpo. In this way a little quality assurance would be given. >> > > Actually there's already a page that has most of that, the Community page > onwww.fpo. We designed that just as you describe, as a kind of hub for > community information. You talk about [3]? I like that page, but I wouldn't use it as my browser home page. Might be some personal liking of mine. Because of that I thought about a "standalone start page". > > Thus, I think it's best to keep all of that on the Community page, and > remove the feeds from start.fpo again. It really adds too much noise IMO. > > > Anyway, I'll give it some more thought next week. > > > As for the Google topic, those are all valid points but it's probably > something to discuss on a different list. For now, I think the content is > good enough: everybody is familiar with Google, and the CC filters add a > nice touch that for instance Firefox's search bar doesn't provide. I just > want to give start.fpo a quick facelift.:) I agree. [3] https://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora vinz. -- Vinzenz Vietzke m: vinz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv | https://twitter.com/vinzv _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
