<p dir="ltr">Hi all,<br>
I'm traveling so no long mails from me. While I'm sure we can find a lot to improve, I don't think that we should start cluttering the landing page with a side bar if we haven't tried other options first.<br>
I can have a closer look next week. <br>
Best wishes<br>
Anita</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 16, 2014 6:51 AM, "Richard Duivenvoorde" <<a href="mailto:richard@duif.net">richard@duif.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 04/15/2014 11:42 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
<br>
> It may be good for us to revisit the front page at some point - its<br>
> actually not very intuitive that you have to scroll down to see more<br>
> info and I wonder how many people actually do it. Richard /<br>
> Anita what<br>
> do you think?<br>
><br>
> I would like to see the "green" buttons up a little higher so no<br>
> scroll is required. Maybe a sidebar with stacked buttons (doesn't<br>
> have to even have a border).<br>
><br>
> Yeah some side space for the green buttons and a high profile item (e.g.<br>
> FOSS4G, crowd funding drive etc.) would be great. It would also be good<br>
> to get the sponsors logos somehow visible (I appreciate I am probably<br>
> trying to bend the laws of pixel space here :-) ).<br>
<br>
While I agree with you both that we should revisit front- and<br>
landingpages, please keep in mind that we are 'responsive' now. Meaning<br>
good usable on phones and tablets, on which you are used to scroll down.<br>
All is Bootstrap based, so a row/section with 12 columns that when you<br>
resize your window will fall apart in separate rows, usable on smaller<br>
devices.<br>
<br>
So we could create a 'section' in which the green buttons are put<br>
stacked in 5(4) columns and then a 'high profile item/ad space' for the<br>
other 7(8) columns, something like:<br>
<a href="http://imgur.com/ouEhdsJ" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/ouEhdsJ</a><br>
<br>
Personally I do not like these huge dark/light gray buttons, they are<br>
too big in my opinion, and on the landingpages (other then front), we<br>
actually have a double navigation structure because those buttons also<br>
appear as a sort of menu in top, which upon click only bring you to the<br>
button. But maybe that is something for Eva to solve.<br>
<br>
According to other ideas, please just try them out, building a html is<br>
pretty easy. Themes/html for landing and frontpages are here:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/tree/master/themes/qgis-theme" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/tree/master/themes/qgis-theme</a><br>
Just try and share an image of it with us to decide.<br>
<br>
@Tim, reason you do not see it is because I try to be gentle to the<br>
server disks (there is an issue there) and do not rebuild that often.<br>
<br>
I'm planning to let point DNS to qgis2 for a while so we could maybe<br>
upgrade qgis server (which then only hosts redmine/wiki/git stuff?) if<br>
somebody volunteers for that. After the cleanup and the hardware is ok<br>
again we could DNS point to both qgis and qgis2?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Richard Duivenvoorde<br>
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