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.

But I did a next version which uses the same layout as the Features page. https://app.zeplin.io/project/58cb0217f2317d48c7a802f2/dashboard?seid=5b0dc889d80aa1886ae77309

Still work in progress! Further viewports will follow.

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.

If I didn't miss something the blog owns 5 different kinds of pages:
  1. All articles
  2. Article list view (e.g. Hottest posts and 2018)
  3. Single article
  4. Posts of a single user
  5. Search results

If you agree with all of that my next steps will be providing the missing viewports and a text formatting sheet.

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=5b0dc8
> 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