PRO: <br>*wow, very nice refactoring of the home page<br>*it's really clear<br><br>CONS:<br>*how to adapt to drupal?!? <br><br>lorenzo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Tyler Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmitchell.osgeo@shaw.ca">tmitchell.osgeo@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Forgot to mention that this will be a topic at our next Marketing meeting (in 13 hours or so from now).. and you are all invited to attend and share thoughts on this topic:<br>
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Timing: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yzjbtmu" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yzjbtmu</a><br>
Agenda: <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2009.12.10" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2009.12.10</a><br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: Tyler Mitchell <<a href="mailto:tmitchell.osgeo@shaw.ca">tmitchell.osgeo@shaw.ca</a>><br>
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 9:37 am<br>
Subject: [Marketing] Website branding and site focus ideas<br>
To: <a href="mailto:marketing@lists.osgeo.org">marketing@lists.osgeo.org</a>, <a href="mailto:webcom@lists.osgeo.org">webcom@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
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> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> It's been a while since we discussed the website focus and<br>
> branding topics as discussed at the marketing/webcom meeting in<br>
> February:<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus</a><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2009.02.05#Update_on_main_projects" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2009.02.05#Update_on_main_projects</a><br>
><br>
> On the branding side... I took the liberty of asking the graphic<br>
> designers (the same who helped our marketing projects this<br>
> year) to give us some ideas for how to include some more of our<br>
> branding components into the website. <br>
><br>
> I steered them to the discussion we'd had back in February and<br>
> based on the "site focus" wiki page and an old mock-up graphic<br>
> to encapsulate the site focus page contents.<br>
><br>
> The end result being a sort of launching off point front page<br>
> targeting various user groups and incorporating our colours and<br>
> some graphics:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/design/draft2a.jpg" target="_blank">http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/design/draft2a.jpg</a> <br>
> (other versions with minor changes are in same folder, I cropped<br>
> this one)<br>
><br>
> I asked them also for a secondary page layout - that will be<br>
> more like<br>
> a traditional layout with a sidebar/menus but haven't received<br>
> it yet.<br>
><br>
> At this point the design is for throwing tomatoes at, rather<br>
> than just talking generally about some way to improve the look<br>
> and targeting more directly. The text on the pages are just<br>
> some of the main points from the wiki and I expect titles,<br>
> bullet text and more to change - so think more about the layout<br>
> then the details of the text. Regardless of content changes I<br>
> hope some branding stuff here would be useful. What do you think?<br>
><br>
><br>
> On the site organisation side...<br>
><br>
> I also took all the thoughts I could from the wiki on the<br>
> subject and put them into a mindmap, then cross referenced<br>
> between 'current site' and 'new ideas' to ensure content was<br>
> generally carried over. Again, just an exercise to try to<br>
> envision where we could go:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/sitemap/" target="_blank">http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/sitemap/</a><br>
><br>
> If you look at the mindmap, on the right side, the green text<br>
> represents pages that we currently have - and for the most part,<br>
> the black text represents pages we don't have yet but that<br>
> implied as necessary from the site focus page/discussion. It's<br>
> a rough brainstorm for sure but hopefully is useful for starting<br>
> a conversation, so please share your thoughts.<br>
><br>
> Best wishes,<br>
> Tyler<br>
><br>
><br>
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