Re: [IPFire Artwork] Blog aka Planet

17 Jun 2018


      Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org schrieb am So., 17. Juni 2018,
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Hello,
On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 23:02 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
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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.
yes, that looks more sweet to me :)
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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.
I will need to check again with Sven where he is at. We still have a
little bit of stuff to do on the donation page before we can start
implementing this.
Sure, no problem.
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So anything design-wise that needs to be done before we can start
working on the blog?
Not for sure. I have to validate this. But the chances are high that the
formatting you already have seen will stay the same.
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Best,
-Michael
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Best,
Maurice
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:40 PM Michael Tremer <
michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:
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Hi,
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 22:29 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
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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
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Great!
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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.
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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?
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Is it possible to include a article from another blog and show it
with the correct text formatting?
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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 :)
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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
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Best,
Maurice
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:02 PM Michael Tremer <
michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:
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Hello,
great hearing from you!
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 00:23 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
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Hey Michael,
> One comment about my first impression: Isn't it a bit dark
when the
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The contrast is high enough for a very good reading experience.
The same
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bgcolor and copy text color is used on the homepage, feature and
donate page
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as well.
Unless you changed this now, I have no idea what I meant by this.
Now, the
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background is white I personally find this a bit easier to read
from. But maybe
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I am going blind...
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But I did a next version which uses the same layout as the
Features
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page.
https://app.zeplin.io/project/58cb0217f2317d48c7a802f2/dashboard?seid=5b
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0dc889d80aa1886ae77309
Still work in progress! Further viewports will follow.
This looks really clean & tidy! Our users will love it!
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> Is there a reason that I have missed why this should all be
merged together?
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It's not a good user experience if one single "service" (the
IPFire
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application) has a different navigation (header) for each
subdomain. Mirror,
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downloads, planet, talk, forum, etc are only reachable from the
footer of the
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mainpage or by typing the URL directly. I would expect the same
navigation on
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all pages. This would make it a lot easier to navigate and find
things
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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
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now redirect to planet.ipfire.org. Than we would have only one
destination for
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the announcements.
I absolutely agree. This is the way to go. Since it is a blog now,
we can move
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everything into it. Before, I didn't feel right that the release
announcements
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where on the "planet". But since it is going now, this is a lot
better and
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easier.
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If I didn't miss something the blog owns 5 different kinds of
pages:
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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
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ordered by clicks and I think it would be better if we just mark a
few posts
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like the release announcements as "starred" and then people can
just go through
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the most important posts without scrolling through the longer
years.
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I am also not sure if we need the years, but what else would be a
good way to go
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back in history?
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Single article
Posts of a single user
Search results
I am also thinking about adding "featured" posts from somewhere
else. For
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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
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blog as well. So how would we make (visually) sure that people
recognise these
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as a post from somewhere else? Would we load the entire post into
our blog or
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just the first paragraph and then send people over to the original
blog?
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If you agree with all of that my next steps will be providing
the missing
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viewports and a text formatting sheet.
Yes I do :)
Best,
-Michael
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Best,
Maurice
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:19 PM Michael Tremer <
michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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> Hey Maurice,
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> thanks again for moving this forward.
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> On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 00:04 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote:
> > Hey folks,
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> > just want to let you know that I'm alive and added WIP (Work
In Progress.
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> > Sven, please don't start with coding yet) Screens of the
Blog at Zeplin
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https://app.zeplin.io/project/58cb0217f2317d48c7a802f2/dashboard?seid=5b
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> This looks good.
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> One comment about my first impression: Isn't it a bit dark
when the
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> > I discovered 4 different locations where a blog article
appears:
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> > https://planet.ipfire.org/
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https://planet.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-19-core-update-120-is-available-
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> for-te
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https://www.ipfire.org/news/ipfire-2-19-core-update-118-released
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> > https://downloads.ipfire.org/release/ipfire-2.19-core120
> > Did I catch them all or are there more?
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> No, I think that is all.
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> But I would suggest to remove the new article on the download
page. That
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there anyways.
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the page
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> cleaner
> and we can make it serve only one purpose: Downloading the
right file.
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> > My goal is to provide only one version of an article which
can be used for
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> > each destination. Which is already almost the case.
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> Yes, the code that generates the HTML out of the markup just
generates one
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> version. However, this is quite confusing with headline sizes
and so on now.
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> doesn't fit too well at the moment.
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> > For the future we should think about merging all those
separated
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don't think
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navigation which
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> > handle lots of links should do the trick.
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> We can get rid of downloads.ipfire.org. The initial purpose
of that was to
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> some sort of an archive with all historic downloads, but that
can as well be
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> realised on the main page.
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> I think blog.ipfire.org should be an extra subdomain so
people see what
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> something is about only by looking at the URL.
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> Is there a reason that I have missed why this should all be
merged together?
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> Best,
> -Michael
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> > Best,
> > Maurice

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