From kdevelop-devel  Sun Nov 25 12:50:39 2001
From: Christoph Cullmann <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:50:39 +0000
To: kdevelop-devel
Subject: Re: Some design suggestion
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Am Sunday 25 November 2001 01:24 schrieben Sie:
> > > What about asking the other KDE pages' designers to form maybe a
> > > unified homepage design at least when it comes to the frontpages ? I
> > > heard a lot
>
> of
>
> > > people saying that the KDE webpage is very, very well done in regards
>
> that
>
> > > it provides the information that it ships in a very clear and easy to
> > > overlook way. So gathering and mindsharing about homepage design
>
> wouldn't
>
> > > be a bad idea I think. I would prefer to have the left sidebar similar
>
> to
>
> > > the one at kde.org as it gives the reader the links to all the
> > > important other pages such as kde.org, konqueror.org and what not. Just
> > > my $0.02
> :
> :)
> :
> > Yes, that would be the best in my eyes, too. The overall design of the
>
> kde.org
>
> > pages is not bad, perhaps only a bit too conservative (in my eyes ;).
>
> Perhaps
>
> > the page designers could fresh it a bit up and voila, a nice "new" look
>
> and
>
> > feel.
>
> Okay let's do that. I think we do not necessarily make all kde sites look
> the
> same - no we even must not. But there has to be an element and/or a basic
> layout that holds them all together. This may not only be these cogwheels.
> Maybe also the basic site layout, the links to other kde-sites, fonts.
> Some points for differences could be colors, main picture/logo, categories,
> etc.
Good idea ;=) I don't want all pages to look like one, but such a common "gui" 
in all pages would be nice (but logos, colors, and style can change, but 
structure will be the same ;)

>
> O'Reilly (www.oreilly.com) gives a good example for a working combination
> of different sites.
>
> Can anyone tell how to address all other designers?
>
> Sandy: I think there still will be some room for having individuality.
> Besides
> we should not separate KDevelop too much from KDE. (Otherwise we have
> to remove the K.) If you want to address also Perl, Java, PHP devlopers
> than announce it on the front page in a way like this "KDevelop - For
> Java, PHP, GBA, Python, C/C++, Objective C, Pascal, ... developers" and
> add a subcategory for each Language.
> I'll help you...
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
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