[RFC] Website refresh for 2.0.0

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 12:08 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> In the last 24 hours, I've updated the proposed new website and Emma has
> uploaded new images/buttons. Here's the net result:
> 
> * http://people.canonical.com/~ianc/dancingmonkeys/
> 
> poolie is working with Canonical IT staff to get this rolled out
> somewhere sensible.
[ . . . ]

Is the yellow on hover, "skip to" bar at the top a drafting artefact or
part of the final system.

As others have mentioned the highlighting behind the three navigation
icons is a bit strange, it highlights a block with arbitrary boundary
(conceptually) but offers no link, only moving over the icon itself
leads to the link.

I wonder if the central icon should just be the Bazaar icon with no
overlay rather than this amended one?

The "Used by" box highlights but is not a link.  I would have thought
the icons would link you to the named organization.  I am not entirely
convinced by the "and you".

Does qdiff have to be downloaded as a Bazaar plugin separately from the
qbzr plugin?  The phrasing implies it does, when in fact it is bundled.

There is something weird feeling about the gradation and the initial
intensity of the yellow on the backgrounds.  The upper and lower blue
are neither the same nor reflections of each other.  The yellow isn't
graduates in the same structure as the blue below.  Obviously though
this is a personal observation, but I guess I just like structured
symmetry.

This is the opening page, what is the plan for the other pages?  Clearly
there has to be a whole-site brand style, but it isn't clear from this
opening page what that might be.

Overall, I think the new design works nicely.  I do think though the top
blue section below the menu bar is too tall.  The height of the qdiff
image could be shrunk without loss of impact.

-- 
Russel.
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