Hi,
I changed the LWL related article to it's main color "indigo". I added the missing viewports with just a part from one article. Since Viewport S and XS has no Sidebar I reused the same solution with the dropdown menu within the header bar as at the Features page.
I'll provide a sample page with all text formatting asap. All formattings (size, lineheight, padding) will be same on all viewports to keep it simple.
Best, Maurice
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:40 PM Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 22:29 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
Hey,
I'm happy that you like it :)
I added an additional version with a modified sidebar based on your
feedback: https://zpl.io/bPYLNk6
Great!
I added a "Featured" link where tagged articles will show up as a list
view or as full articles. Up to you. The years got a headline. I added a "Lightning Wire Labs" link plus the red lightning logo as an indicator that this is something special. The lightning appears also next to the headline of a LWL article and the headline color use the same green as the LWL blog. There is also a button at the bottom which points you to the LWL page.
This works great I think. Not sure if it needs the extra link for LWL articles because they won't be that many. But I really like the highlighted post, because I want to make it clear that this is something else and not IPFire. But it is close enough to be of interest for the users.
Should it be green and not indigo (which is the primary LWL colour)? I just made the website look really bright and colourful and fun. The blog got the green but maybe the brand colour is better?
Is it possible to include a article from another blog and show it with
the correct text formatting?
I hope. Unfortunately we use two different things to format them. The IPFire blog uses textile and LWL uses markdown. But there is some rendered HTML coming out of it in an RSS feed which I wanted to parse. That should work, but embedded things are always a bit of a struggle. Let this be my problem :)
What do you think?
I think this is a very creative and intuitive solution I couldn't have come up with myself. It looks fun. It is easy to use. Crystal clear and a clean design. Focusses on the content. Just great!
Best, -Michael
Best, Maurice
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:02 PM Michael Tremer <
michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:
Hello,
great hearing from you!
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 00:23 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
Hey Michael,
One comment about my first impression: Isn't it a bit dark when the background isn't white? I don't find it bad or anything, just unexpected.
The contrast is high enough for a very good reading experience. The
same
bgcolor and copy text color is used on the homepage, feature and
donate page
as well.
Unless you changed this now, I have no idea what I meant by this. Now,
the
background is white I personally find this a bit easier to read from.
But maybe
I am going blind...
But I did a next version which uses the same layout as the Features page.
https://app.zeplin.io/project/58cb0217f2317d48c7a802f2/dashboard?seid=5b
0dc889d80aa1886ae77309
Still work in progress! Further viewports will follow.
This looks really clean & tidy! Our users will love it!
Is there a reason that I have missed why this should all be merged
together?
It's not a good user experience if one single "service" (the IPFire application) has a different navigation (header) for each subdomain.
Mirror,
downloads, planet, talk, forum, etc are only reachable from the
footer of the
mainpage or by typing the URL directly. I would expect the same
navigation on
all pages. This would make it a lot easier to navigate and find
things
faster.
For now I kept the Planet navigation but I merged the content of ipfire.org/news and planet.ipfire.org. In my opinion ipfire.org/news
should
now redirect to planet.ipfire.org. Than we would have only one
destination for
the announcements.
I absolutely agree. This is the way to go. Since it is a blog now, we
can move
everything into it. Before, I didn't feel right that the release
announcements
where on the "planet". But since it is going now, this is a lot better
and
easier.
If I didn't miss something the blog owns 5 different kinds of pages: All articles Article list view (e.g. Hottest posts and 2018)
I think the "Hottest Posts" could get a redefinition. This is just a
list
ordered by clicks and I think it would be better if we just mark a few
posts
like the release announcements as "starred" and then people can just
go through
the most important posts without scrolling through the longer years.
I am also not sure if we need the years, but what else would be a good
way to go
back in history?
Single article Posts of a single user Search results
I am also thinking about adding "featured" posts from somewhere else.
For
example the lightning wire labs website has a tiny blog now:
https://www.lightningwirelabs.com/blog
Many of these articles are IPFire-related and I would like to list on
the IPFire
blog as well. So how would we make (visually) sure that people
recognise these
as a post from somewhere else? Would we load the entire post into our
blog or
just the first paragraph and then send people over to the original
blog?
If you agree with all of that my next steps will be providing the
missing
viewports and a text formatting sheet.
Yes I do :)
Best, -Michael
Best, Maurice
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:19 PM Michael Tremer <
michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
wrote:
Hey Maurice,
thanks again for moving this forward.
On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 00:04 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
Hey folks,
just want to let you know that I'm alive and added WIP (Work In
Progress.
Sven, please don't start with coding yet) Screens of the Blog at
Zeplin
https://app.zeplin.io/project/58cb0217f2317d48c7a802f2/dashboard?seid=5b
0dc8
89d80aa1886ae77309
This looks good.
One comment about my first impression: Isn't it a bit dark when the background isn't white? I don't find it bad or anything, just unexpected.
I discovered 4 different locations where a blog article appears: https://planet.ipfire.org/
https://planet.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-19-core-update-120-is-available-
for-te
sting https://www.ipfire.org/news/ipfire-2-19-core-update-118-released https://downloads.ipfire.org/release/ipfire-2.19-core120 Did I catch them all or are there more?
No, I think that is all.
But I would suggest to remove the new article on the download
page. That
makes it very long to scroll and nobody is looking for that content
there anyways.
We should rather have a link to the news article and that keeps the
page
cleaner and we can make it serve only one purpose: Downloading the right
file.
My goal is to provide only one version of an article which can
be used for
each destination. Which is already almost the case.
Yes, the code that generates the HTML out of the markup just
generates one
version. However, this is quite confusing with headline sizes and
so on now.
It doesn't fit too well at the moment.
For the future we should think about merging all those separated
subdomains
into one piece of website with a new navigation structure. I
don't think
they
need to be technically merged together. Just one single
navigation which
can
handle lots of links should do the trick.
We can get rid of downloads.ipfire.org. The initial purpose of
that was to
have some sort of an archive with all historic downloads, but that can
as well be
realised on the main page.
I think blog.ipfire.org should be an extra subdomain so people
see what
something is about only by looking at the URL.
Is there a reason that I have missed why this should all be merged
together?
Best, -Michael
Best, Maurice