On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 23:11 -0600, Felix Delattre wrote:
> Hello all together,
>
> we have news from the website team. First of all we have a design
> proposal (http://i.imgur.com/4svVh.png) which should be discussed during
> this week, so we can go on with implementing this soon. So, please leave
> your feedback!
I love it! Particularly the spaceship with super cow powers!
> * We think a Debconf-Website could look some more personal and lovely.
> See the design proposal :-)
>
> * The sponsors' logos were all over the place, but usually a user is
> only seeing the first or maybe the second highest sponsor, and with
> short text we had some really ugly white spaces for excessive scrolling.
> (See for example http://debconf11.debconf.org/debianday.xhtml) We think
> it is better to get all sponsors together into the footer. So we can
> avoid unnecessary scrolling and if somebody wants to see them, then they
> are all there; nice and compact.
Usually it is important to present the *top* sponsors separately, to
give them a special place, but otherwise I like your sponsorship design.
> * Past Debconfs could be listed as following. Past Debconfs: (1), (2), (n)
I vaguely wonder whether n .. 0 might be better ordering. Seeing it as
it is in the design had me immediately thinking I would go to page X
when I clicked, but putting it in reverse order would break that mental
link.
> I hope our notes are understandable and we are looking forward to
> getting your feedback.
It's great! I think it's long overdue for someone to take a clear
rational approach to this design, as you have.
Regards,
Andrew McMillan.
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