Kubuntu Website Sprint
Valorie Zimmerman
valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 09:25:31 UTC 2015
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN
<ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> În ziua de Mie 25 Feb 2015, la 20:26:59, ați scris:
>
>> Hello world,
>
>>
>
>> Just in case you're not on IRC, the Kubntu Website Sprint has started and
>> the web video confference is live at:
>> https://meet.jit.si/KubuntuWebsiteSprint[1]
>
>> We're writing a report here:
>> https://notes.kde.org/p/KubuntuWebsiteThemeReport[2]
>
>>
>
>> Please join in and provide any feedback you have.--
>
>> *Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN*
>
>> GeekAliens.com[3]
>
>> Kubuntu România
>
>>
>
>> --------
>
>> [1] https://meet.jit.si/KubuntuWebsiteSprint
>
>> [2] https://notes.kde.org/p/KubuntuWebsiteThemeReport
>
>> [3] http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com
>
>
>
> Kubuntu Website Sprint Report
>
>
>
> This is the report of the Kubuntu Sprint for the Kubuntu Website.
>
> Purpose of the Sprint:
>
> Review the Wordpress theme that Subhajit Mukherjee <subhajitm6 at gmail.com>
> (bukai) made
> Decide wether we should use that theme on out new Kubuntu website
> If YES:
>
> Edit what needs editing
> Publish the theme on the temporary site
>
> If NO:
>
> Write a report (this report) explaining why we chose not to use it
> Find a suitable theme
> Set it up on a test site
>
>
>
> Conclusions why not to use Bukai's theme:
>
> Navigation bar dissapears on smaller window/screen width
> Navigation bar is nonexistant on mobile phones
> Facebook side thingy cannot be closed on mobile devices (Android & Windows
> Phone)
> Loading the page takes a lot of time (~2,93 <-> ~6,61 seconds) (6,7 MB)
> Compared to other Wordpress pages, it's slower than average
> The theme is a fork from https://github.com/toddmotto/html5blank and many
> other projects and throughout the theme there's not much mention of where
> each component came from
> The theme is very fragmented, composed of multiple projects put together but
> not optimized
> There's no commit history so we can complete the upper
> Homepage is not intuitive, and not uniform
> Social feeds are not fluid in the theme
> On small screens the recent posts images are HUGE, taking up to much of the
> screen, and there's not post title.
> The fact that the pictures are not resized properly is not relevant, that
> can be aranged, regardles of the theme used
> There is a need for a maintainer for this theme, to continusly update it,
> secure it and optimize it
>
>
>
> Proposed theme to be used: Advertica Lite
>
> Reasons:
>
> Professional coorporate theme with modern design
> Highly flexible and customisable
> Great code design that makes the theme easily customisable
> Professional third-party maintenance
> Speedy load time (~2,29 seconds) (158KB)
>
>
>
> This theme is currently set up at http://kubwp.kubuntu.co.uk/ just as a
> proof of concept.
>
> We still need to:
>
> optimize images
> do some content cleanup
> do category cleanup
> do tags cleanup
> do media cleanup
> rearange download page
> rearange other pages
> get feedback at every step.
>
>
>
> We got some suggestions from Quintasan from his flatmate
> http://k.abramowicz.org/kubuntu/. This provides great inspiration for the
> Download page IMO.
>
> His design is great. I'd change the color palette. The problem is that that
> theme is just a layout, not a WordPress theme.
>
>
>
> Jonathan also joined us for a few minutes and shared his opinion with us.
>
>
>
> The hope is that the site will be up and running for the 15.04 release.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN
>
> GeekAliens.com
>
> Kubuntu România
I love the top of http://kubwp.kubuntu.co.uk/ even on my phone. The
bottom of the page has some serious problems.
Bukai's theme just does not look attractive or friendly to me.
Thanks so much for starting afresh.
Valorie
PS: how did jitsi work for you?
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