Hi Marco,
Love it!
A couple of ideas (bike shed opinions only of course):
- Larger fonts look friendlier.
- How many people have ever clicked the print/email icons? My guess is
somewhere close to zero.
- RSS icon should look like one, and maybe bigger.
- Like the idea of a big fat download button (example attached but
don't use it as it's not mine).
Kind of hilarious to imagine how users will feel after finding Pd through a lovely friendly pure-data.info site and then being confronted with Pd's blank canvas and then lines-and-boxes for the first time. ;)
Cheers,
Chris.
On 03/07/2012 07:57 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
this is what I'm working on, started with the exhibition page, but it could be generalized. I only added now the background pattern of the ubuntu website, following on the ubuntu font by chris.
This is only CSS editing, but I had to delete the navigation tab on the top from the html. I say so, because apparently it's "easy" to edit the plone css custom theme, but edit the structure might be more painful.
Next I want to display images for each project and a slightly longer description.
attached there's a screenshot..
M
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Marco Donnarumma <devel@thesaddj.com mailto:devel@thesaddj.com> wrote:
Hey folks, I got my head around the CSS editing of PLONE. I can do the CSS job, the only downside is that it has to be done with Plone in development mode. This apparently would slow down the site a bit. However, fact is, if we modify a css class, this will affect the whole website. How should we handle this? Voting for the best style, collecting ideas, or.... I can join Chris and send over some styles I've been trying. It would be great to give a better look, at least to the extent that the css allows. M On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Marco Donnarumma <devel@thesaddj.com <mailto:devel@thesaddj.com>> wrote: Hi Chris, I'm glad you did that. It is what I'm also doing following the discussion in the past week about the website. However, apparently it's a pain to be able to change only the css in the plone template. I'm looking into that, if somebody is more experienced than me in Plone, give me a shout! But, yes, your is a good example of how the same website could look much friendlier. talk soon, M On 03/06/2012 10:35 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > The one thing I miss is the news section. Yeah for sure. > It's probably a little too heavy for the frontpage, but how has webpd progressed? > > Is it possible to link that picture of a patch on the frontpage to a page with a webpd > > version of that patch? Yes but it almost certainly won't run and WebPd has no GUI. :) Maybe a simpler patch could work. Cheers, Chris. -- http://mccormick.cx/ -- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director. ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing) The University of Edinburgh, UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com <http://marcodonnarumma.com/> Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com <http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/> | http://www.thesaddj.com <http://www.thesaddj.com/> | http://www.flxer.net <http://www.flxer.net/> Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net <http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/>-- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director. ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing) The University of Edinburgh, UK
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