[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Please help promote FOSS4G on the QGIS site

[Anita Graser]

Hi all,
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.
I can have a closer look next week.
Best wishes
Anita
On Apr 16, 2014 6:51 AM, "Richard Duivenvoorde" <richard at duif.net> wrote:

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