WineHQ.org design
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* Web developers who have an experience, free time and can help us with Drupal CMS (making a template, adding features etc..). Please mail to wine-devel@winehq.org mail list.
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* There is no default screenshot of applications shown in your mockup, as they are in the current appdb. * It would also be nice if the website could retain its red colour theme. * I don't really like the coloured boxes on the Wine image, but I do like the 3D wine bottle. It would look better if you did away with the squares and shifted the logo to the left. * The CodeWeavers logo should remain as is. Also, since CodeWeavers are hosting WineHQ I don't see why it should have the 'advertisement' label. - Reece
in my opinion the page looks cluttered and I need much effort to find the information I seek. IMO There are just too many design elements here. Get inspired with Google :) - Vit Hrachovy
Why do we even have a top 10 gold and top 10 silver list anyway? Why not just a top 30 platinum list based on popularity? Also, it's not made clear how an application gets into the top 10. Intuitively, a top 10 list for the front page would be a list of the top 10 most popular applications to run with Wine (perhaps judged by AppDB hits). If it's based on votes, then how are any platinum applications there? Votes are supposed to indicate "I want more work done on this application" rather than "I like this application" -- that's why votes for platinum applications were supposed to disintegrate. We already have a separate list for the top voted applications. Regarding the design itself, the colored boxes remind me more of a children's party than a useful piece of software. If you want to add color to the page, it seems like there are other ways to do it without calling garish attention to the Wine logo. That said, winehq and appdb definitely need a new redesign, and I'm very happy you've offered to help. - Scott Ritchie
> Regarding the design itself, the colored boxes remind me more of a > children's party than a useful piece of software. If you want to add > color to the page, it seems like there are other ways to do it without > calling garish attention to the Wine logo. > Garish? ;-) I thought the top X entries looked great. > That said, winehq and appdb definitely need a new redesign, and I'm very > happy you've offered to help. > > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > > We've been throwing around the idea of switching the site to using drupal for a while now so we can more easily manage it remotely and take advantage of things like polls and news stories. I'll suggest the same thing I mentioned the last time the redesign came up, we should make the changes individually, picking the most important ones first. - Program icons (I really like these) - Stats block on the main page is great (This is something Drupal is suited to, enabling us to add a box like this and make it user configurable) - Collapsing the many 'browse' options, maybe into a menu that expands when clicked or hovered, or simply removing the options and improving the UI to have the same capabilities without special links. I'm sure more can be found but these are the ones that stuck out as some of the biggest improvements. We also need to find people interested in working on some of these features. - Chris Morgan
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