Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
2008/4/21 Evgeny Burzak buzzilo@gmail.com:
Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
I personally like it overall and agree that this makes sense for a Wine 1.0 release.
Comments:
* 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
On Tuesday April 22 2008 09:07:10 Reece Dunn wrote:
2008/4/21 Evgeny Burzak buzzilo@gmail.com:
Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
Yeah, great design!
I personally like it overall and agree that this makes sense for a Wine 1.0 release.
Comments:
- 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.
I don't like colored boxes too. But 3D logo is good so I think getting rid of colored boxes is good idea. It might be better to add some kind of "neutral" background for 3D logo.
Evgeny Burzak wrote:
Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
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.
Thanks, 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
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:27 -0400 "Chris Morgan" chmorgan@gmail.com wrote:
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'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
Switching to drupal is a great idea i think, but i have no deal with drupal at all.. I wonder how to move all content to new site? May be the simplest way is begin from scratch? :)
-- Евгений
Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
-- Evgeny
Thanks for the design and for bringing it up again! It certainly contains a lot of good ideas about how the site can be improved.
Alexander N. Sørnes
ok. If you have another ideas or comments please write it out on wiki page: http://wiki.winehq.org/WinehqDesign There i will mirror my work too.
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:06:16 +0200 Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes alex@thehandofagony.com wrote:
Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
-- Evgeny
Thanks for the design and for bringing it up again! It certainly contains a lot of good ideas about how the site can be improved.
Alexander N. Sørnes
It looks alright. It's simple, and does not really have much punch to it. It looks like a Wikipedia clone.
The logo is the big problem. You have unilaterally decided to replace our current official Wine logo with one of your own. If you want to do that, you need to submit your logo for review to become the new official Wine logo.
IMO, In order to be a good project logo, it needs look good when reduced down to 2 colors. I.e., on a black and white letterhead. Your logo, being 3D will not fit that simple guideline.
Evgeny Burzak wrote:
Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png). Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine.
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