[ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

[Tony Scott]

Alan

Yes you're right -  there are in fact Ubuntu/Canonical web design guidelines in 
the pdf linked from here

http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/guides-for-websites/

I would use the page header top level nav detailed in the pdf - so it's similar 
to

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://design.canonical.com/

You can then put links to section such as blog, about, etc on the left hand side 
in the top level nav as in the above sites.

If you're going to have a standard right hand column throughout the site I would 
put the podcast logo/link in there, as I think the podcast logo is too dominant 
on the beta.

I could do some work on this, but I'm currently busy on other stuff.

Cheers

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Tony Scott
http://tonyscott.org.uk | http://twitter.com/tonys | http://uk.wordcamp.org



----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan Bell <alanbell at ubuntu.com>
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Mon, 18 October, 2010 16:06:35
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website
> 
>   On 18/10/10 15:51, Tony Scott wrote:
> > I'd swap the ubuntu-uk logo  to the left, and the podcast logo to the right.
> >
> > When I first  went to the beta site, it immediately gave the impression of 
>being
> > a  site about the podcast.
> >
> > Most users, I suspect, expect the site  logo to be left aligned, as a 
>convention
> > built up over a number of  years.
> >
> > What does everyone else think?
> >
> >    --
> > Tony Scott
> > http://tonyscott.org.uk | http://twitter.com/tonys | http://uk.wordcamp.org
> >
> interesting point, the Ubuntu logo tends  to go on the right these days 
> (see http://ubuntu.com for example) and the podcast logo was on the left 
> before. I messed about with the gimp to do the bursty thing, if someone 
> has more graphic design skills than me then we can certainly do 
> something else with it. I was thinking of more of a page peel effect, 
> but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
> 
> Alan.
> 
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