New Ubuntu Website

[Martin Böhm]

Thanks Matthew for all the improvements and the information you've provided us.

Like many others, I'd also like to change the Czech Drupal website
theme (www.ubuntu.cz) to match the new Ubuntu one. If somebody on this
list sends me the files, I'll be grateful.

Martin Böhm

2007/3/16, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com>:
> Thanks for the positive feedback. I sent instructions and details for
> the theme to everyone who asked.
>
> Now I'm going away on vacation for a few days. If you need the theme
> files, e-mail to this list and some kind soul will help you out.
>
> The drupal version we're using is 4.7. When we started this project, the
> 5.0 version didn't have a release date and we didn't want to risk having
> to wait for our version to leave beta to publish the website.
>
> The style was designed by an art firm, however we've deviated from it
> quite a bit. It was fixed width and the logo was lower and a few other
> changes. I contributed very few graphic elements to the website
> personally. However, I'm excited about the download page and being able
> to do some coding for the website. Partners, training, local resources
> and enhancements to the download page are all planned.
>
> Have fun while I'm away.
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 13:27 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > You will soon see that the main www.ubuntu.com website has changed. It
> > has a new look and is now based on the drupal CMS.
> >
> > I know that many of you like to modify your sites to match the
> > www.ubuntu.com site.
> >
> > I currently have a drupal theme available that I'm happy to share with
> > you. Soon I'll have a moin theme and a plain HTML file as well. Also,
> > I'll make available graphics in an editable format (photoshop or Gimp)
> > so that you can customize the graphics.
> >
> > Soon, as we get closer to the release for 7.04 I'll begin communicating
> > with you all in order to make it easier for non-english speakers to get
> > help, and that may possibly include detecting users configured browser
> > language and putting a link to an info page in their native language
> > atop the page of the website.
> >
> > Here are a few requests I'd like to make:
> >
> > First, we'd like to try and fix the problem of people going from one
> > ubuntu website to the next and having them look the same but function
> > differently. For example, in the old website, if you go from
> > www.ubuntu.com the tabs change. Go to help.ubuntu.com and they change
> > again. Therefore we'd like to maintain consistency across all the sites
> > that use the new theme by keeping the links at the top right of the page
> > the same. How best to do this in a multi-lingual environment is a good
> > question, do you have any suggestions?
> >
> > Second, some sites have changed the Ubuntu logo. What we'd like to do is
> > limit the number of unique ubuntu logos and maintain consistency. This
> > is not a command, just a suggestion. But what we're going to encourage
> > is customizing the logo as seen here:
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~mnuzum/projects/LogoExample.png
> >
> > The normal logo, the normal Ubuntu title font and your site's name below
> > the title font, right aligned with the final u in Ubuntu.
> >
> > Doing so will allow people to see that they have entered a new area, but
> > still feel like they're still at Ubuntu. Again, I'm open to discussion,
> > but the purpose is to provide consistency.
> >
> > If you want to be one of the early adopters of the new theme, e-mail me
> > off list and I'll get you a link to my source.
> > --
> > Matthew Nuzum
> > newz2000 on freenode
> >
> >
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