Hi,

Michael, I totally understand your point of view to launch something finally. To reach your very tight goal this is my suggestion how to proceed:
  1. Keep the content as it is.
  2. Use the new text formatting - sizes, lineheights and colors.
  3. Make sure content doesn't overlap the main navigation anymore.
  4. Fix the layouts at all viewports (e.g. http://dev.ipfire.org/get-involved)
  5. Fix the display errors at the burger menu and the glitches during browser resizing.
4 & 5 are not blockers. It's always possible to read the content, but these are heavy visual bugs which cast a damning light on the whole experience IMHO. I'm sure Sven is already aware of that.

I already slowly continued with the designs. Due to the new situation I'll provide kind of generic layout and simple rules which can be used for all current missing pages. Just to have something at launch which doesn't look completely unfinished.

After launch I'ld like to continue finishing the website and all their pages before we move to the WUI. Starting with the optimized donation page. Than the rest and fixing 90% of the bugs to provide a professional experience for the users.


What do you think? Any concerns? Further suggestions? Let me know.

Best, Maurice

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:
Hello *,

I would like to pick up the conversation on this list again as I just had some
one-to-one emails between Sven and me and I of course don't want to exclude
anyone.

I asked Sven if we would be able to finish the website relaunch by the end of
November so that we can launch this before Christmas and get it off of our
tables. This seems to be fairly tight now, but he agreed that we should try it
and see how close we can get to that deadline.

However, there is still a lot to do. It looks like a lot, but it does not seem
to be the most difficult since the base layout is already there and the
remaining pages are just simple or do not need to be too well styled because
they are just for internal use. We can always refine things later, because this
is not a drop and then leave kind of situation, but a work in progress...

So what is left to do?

The main page seems to be okay for me. I think Sven agreed on this but has some
minor things which I think we could possibly even fix later.

The features page is also done.

Then there is many pages where the design does not exist for. Unfortunately we
can only launch everything or nothing so that we at least need to migrate them
to Bootstrap 4 and implement a new design later if we cannot do now.

There are on the main page:

http://dev.ipfire.org/imprint
http://dev.ipfire.org/chat

For these I need some better ideas for structuring the content. They seem quite
redundant: http://dev.ipfire.org/get-support, http://dev.ipfire.org/get-involved

The error pages need to be fixed: http://dev.ipfire.org/404

There will be some bigger updates for the donation page which I will put in an
extra email (http://dev.ipfire.org/donate).

Then we go the http://planet.dev.ipfire.org/, http://downloads.dev.ipfire.org/,
http://fireinfo.dev.ipfire.org/, http://mirrors.dev.ipfire.org/, http://nopaste.
dev.ipfire.org/, http://geoip.dev.ipfire.org/ which are all public.

And then we got http://talk.dev.ipfire.org & http://admin.dev.ipfire.org/ which
are only for members to log in and therefore not really a priority, but they
must work so that we can post on the planet.

All in all this looks like a lot, but all those domains have basically two pages
and loads of stuff can obviously be re-used so I don't think this is too much
work.

Maurice, do you have the time right now to design the remaining things?

Can I be of any help to implement this?

-Michael