Gentoo Website Redesign - the community effort

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myuser · Post by **myuser** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:30 pm

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 · Post by **cokey** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:49 pm

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

Raniz · Post by **Raniz** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:55 pm

myuser wrote: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?

We definitely need more of Larry the Cow on the pages!

tdennist · Post by **tdennist** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:49 pm

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.

stonent · Post by **stonent** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:56 pm

We need a larry the cow comic strip, maybe something daily or weekly to read.

RedDawn · Post by **RedDawn** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:58 pm

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

myuser · Post by **myuser** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:12 pm

It is a brainstorming contribution, just post ideas

Ceapollo · Post by **Ceapollo** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:23 pm

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

. 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!

tdennist · Post by **tdennist** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:27 pm

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.

Ceapollo · Post by **Ceapollo** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:34 pm

tdennist wrote: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.

OOOOOOooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh yeah that is everything that i have dreamed about and then some!

KungFuHamster · Post by **KungFuHamster** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:52 pm

Screw Larry.

What Gentoo.org needs is...

MORE COWBELL!

end11 · Post by **end11** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:11 pm

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.

Yes. And please find a way to put large blocks of (prefferably red) text between <marquee> and <blink> tags, those never go out of style

homeobocks · Post by **homeobocks** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:13 pm

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

It's a little thing called "style." Look it up.

abzs2k · Post by **abzs2k** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:41 pm

Make the website style like a slick gnome interface.

Mirrorball · Post by **Mirrorball** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:50 pm

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

myuser · Post by **myuser** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:51 pm

>>> 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 · Post by **apeitheo** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:01 pm

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 · Post by **ed0n** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:13 pm

stonent wrote:We need a larry the cow comic strip, maybe something daily or weekly to read.

Great idea.

Mirrorball · Post by **Mirrorball** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:25 pm

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

hensan · Post by **hensan** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:40 pm

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

There was supposed to be advertising:

New Gentoo Website

(Warning: May or may not contain explicit banners!)

Mirrorball · Post by **Mirrorball** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:48 pm

hensan wrote: New Gentoo Website

Perfect! You're going to win this contest. How could I forget the advertising?

apeitheo · Post by **apeitheo** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:04 pm

Mirrorball wrote:
hensan wrote: New Gentoo Website
Perfect! You're going to win this contest. How could I forget the advertising?

Hahaha, Yeah now we're talking! The current Gentoo website looks like crap compared to that. Great design/layout and content, Mirrorball. We're going to have a hard time competing with that.

blaksaga · Post by **blaksaga** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:12 am

Raniz wrote:
myuser wrote: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?
We definitely need more of Larry the Cow on the pages!

I most definately agree. Larry is an awesome posterboy (animal?) for gentoo. Maybe we could create a new logo that included Larry?!?

blaksaga · Post by **blaksaga** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:15 am

ed0n wrote:
stonent wrote:We need a larry the cow comic strip, maybe something daily or weekly to read.
Great idea.

Maybe I'll start making one.

Flammie · Post by **Flammie** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:09 am

myuser wrote: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.

Camels spit. Seriously.

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.

Uh oh.

Is purple in or out?

In

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

Turqoiseish. websafe colors died in the 90's.

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

Custom icons can be done with css, even as a replacement to text links which are requirement for accessibility, including support for links2.

Is that logo eating up too much screen real estate?

Nah.

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

Well, if the aim is to look like more corporate friendly or something twisted shit like that, they'd perhaps be best of stealing some mandrake or suse style boring and ugly logo. That colorful piece of abstract art is way too hacker-anarchistic-romantic for serious web site.

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?

DHTML as in css rollover moneys is yay!

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

Shop? What shop?

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

Verdana should be locked in a chamber and tortured on a daily bases and left unfeeded until it gets nicer and more obeying to reasonable dimensions and proportions.

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?

Larry should be purple!

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