From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: ipfire-artwork@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: [IPFire Artwork] Blog aka Planet Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:02:03 +0100 Message-ID: <036cc3e8529eb41ce1cdd48f26c246742575bf62.camel@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7939648136002143266==" List-Id: --===============7939648136002143266== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, great hearing from you! On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 00:23 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote: > Hey Michael, >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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 may= be 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= =3D5b > 0dc889d80aa1886ae77309 >=20 > 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 togeth= er? >=20 > 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 t= he > 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.=20 >=20 > 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 throu= gh 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 IPF= ire 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 >=20 > Best, > Maurice=20 > =20 >=20 > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:19 PM Michael Tremer > wrote: > > Hey Maurice, > >=20 > > thanks again for moving this forward. > >=20 > > On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 00:04 +0200, Maurice Gesswein wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > >=20 > > > just want to let you know that I'm alive and added WIP (Work In Progres= s. > > > Sven, please don't start with coding yet) Screens of the Blog at Zeplin > > > - https://app.zeplin.io/project/58cb0217f2317d48c7a802f2/dashboard?seid= =3D5b > > 0dc8 > > > 89d80aa1886ae77309 > >=20 > > This looks good. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > > 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=20 > > > Did I catch them all or are there more? > >=20 > > No, I think that is all. > >=20 > > 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 anywa= ys. > > 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. > >=20 > > > My goal is to provide only one version of an article which can be used = for > > > each destination. Which is already almost the case. > >=20 > > 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 n= ow. > > It > > doesn't fit too well at the moment. > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > I think blog.ipfire.org should be an extra subdomain so people see what > > something is about only by looking at the URL. > >=20 > > Is there a reason that I have missed why this should all be merged togeth= er? > >=20 > > Best, > > -Michael > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Best, > > > Maurice --===============7939648136002143266==--