From: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:39:00 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: Website redesign
Message-ID: <pan.2008.04.14.20.39.10@progsoc.org>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0804141129h25c829e2i320f227594763d71@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:29:00 +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
> wrote:
>>  With all due respect, all of the designs you've posted look like
>>  _weblog_
>> templates, and that doesn't seem appropriate to me for a software
>> website. One of the things I most dislike about the weblog format is
>> the fixed-width centre column and the large tracks of wasted space down
>> the sides;

That is basically the current "Web 2.0 style".

<http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm>

One of the "hotties" is a software project, and Free Software at that.

I think the designs are a good first starting point. 

You have a range of colour schemes there, I think you need to pick one or 
two visuals -- and some appropriate icons (3D pandas? bender the robot? 
herring?) as well.

Cheers,
Anand