Hey all. I've spent a bit more time on the redesign of the website. I'm looking to get more comments from you.
First off, You'll notice I am *toying* with the idea of placing a banner ad on the web site. WineHQ generates a large amount of traffic. About 6,000,000 page hits a month. All I simply want to do, is try to allow CodeWeavers to make up for some of that by placing our ads on the site. I won't be taking any offers to put "Click the Monkey" ads. I will happily put up banners for other Wine related companies. If enough object I will cheerfully take them down. This is my idea, so I'll take the brunt of the flames here. I just wasn't getting enough clicks on the "Hosted By CodeWeavers" link to satisfy me.
There is some missing content pages yet on the site. I need someone to help volunteer by being a editor. The job consists of working purely on the text of the site. I've done my best to clean up the text so far. But, I doubt I will have much more time to do that.
Let me know of oddities you find, and if your browser croaks completely or something on that order.
On 20 Mar 2003, Jeremy Newman wrote:
Hey all. I've spent a bit more time on the redesign of the website. I'm looking to get more comments from you.
Very nice! I love the new look, maybe we should do a poll on which one should become the default! :)
I've sent you this privately, but I'm reposting it here so that people can comment on the idea as well. Here it goes:
I was looking at the main page of the new WineHQ, and I was thinking of the following changes: 1. The menu at the bottom of the main "About" box is mainly duplicating the the left-side menu. Let's get rid of it. 2. Move the theme selector somewhere else, like another box on on the left, below "Developemnt" 3. In place of the "Change Theme" box, let's have an "Announcements" box (like the KDE/GNOME/etc pages) where we can place the latest and greatest things, such as Wine releases, News releases, interviews, etc. This way, we can maybe just have the "Latest Release" as one of the announcements, and get rid of the little "Latest Release" box which is a bit dry and uninspiring. Also, the current "Change Theme" box is way too big and proeminent for what it does. Is it the intetion of having the ability to change themes in production as well?
First off, You'll notice I am *toying* with the idea of placing a banner ad on the web site. WineHQ generates a large amount of traffic. About 6,000,000 page hits a month. All I simply want to do, is try to allow CodeWeavers to make up for some of that by placing our ads on the site. I won't be taking any offers to put "Click the Monkey" ads. I will happily put up banners for other Wine related companies. If enough object I will cheerfully take them down. This is my idea, so I'll take the brunt of the flames here. I just wasn't getting enough clicks on the "Hosted By CodeWeavers" link to satisfy me.
Since I was the first to complain, I'll be the first to say that they actually look cute. In short, I like them, and they can stay, as far as I can say. Also, if the CW people think they are helpful, so much the better. If we do keep them around, maybe we can also have a "Donate" ad, similar to the one on Slashdot. I'm sold.
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 16:44, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
Very nice! I love the new look, maybe we should do a poll on which one should become the default! :)
Adding new templates is not hard. So I *might* accept submissions of new templates. In the CVS tree, look at includes/themes/ There is a seperate dir for each theme. Add the images, to images, add a style sheet and voila, new theme.
I was looking at the main page of the new WineHQ, and I was thinking of the following changes:
- The menu at the bottom of the main "About" box is mainly duplicating the the left-side menu. Let's get rid of it.
In this case I think the duplication is good. From a newbie aspect, the first place they will read is the text on the home page. And the extra clarification helps.
- Move the theme selector somewhere else, like another box on on the left, below "Developemnt"
Yeah, for this beta, its there for now, I think I will make a "Preferences" link somewhere in the nav.
- In place of the "Change Theme" box, let's have an "Announcements" box (like the KDE/GNOME/etc pages) where we can place the latest and greatest things, such as Wine releases, News releases, interviews, etc.
See, that would be duplication. We already have news. It's WWN. Adding announcements that don't get updated as often as WWN seems lame. Leave that to other news sites.
Since I was the first to complain, I'll be the first to say that they actually look cute. In short, I like them, and they can stay, as far as I can say. Also, if the CW people think they are helpful, so much the better. If we do keep them around, maybe we can also have a "Donate" ad, similar to the one on Slashdot. I'm sold.
I like the idea of a donate ad. Also, adds to other Wine sites such as Frank's World, seems OK to me as well.
My main complaint of the current ad placement is that it makes the layout not work at less than 1024x768. I know I run quite a bit higher than that myself. Usually I prefer the site to fit a minimum of 800x600. To do that, I would need to scale down the main logo a bit. Or as suggested to me, is drop the "Development" part of the logo away so it would just say Wine HQ or Wine Headquarters.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:59:19PM -0600, Jeremy Newman wrote:
Let me know of oddities you find, and if your browser croaks completely or something on that order.
Looking at the entry page using links (a text browser, see links.browser.org) there are some irritating '-' on the page. Otherwise: Things look good with links.
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Jeremy Newman wrote:
Hey all. I've spent a bit more time on the redesign of the website. I'm looking to get more comments from you.
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Let me know of oddities you find, and if your browser croaks completely or something on that order.
Well I run at 800x600 and I have a problem with the banner ads being cut off.
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lambregt/wine/winehq.png
and using the classic theme
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lambregt/wine/winehq2.png
This is with Mozzila.1.0.1
They arent, open the original image.
Well I run at 800x600 and I have a problem with the banner ads being cut off.
Where do you see a problem ?
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lambregt/wine/winehq2.png
This is with Mozzila.1.0.1
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On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 22:59, Jeremy Newman wrote:
Hey all. I've spent a bit more time on the redesign of the website. I'm looking to get more comments from you.
Ahh, I didn't realise it'd be adverts for Wine. Well, I'll shut up, I'm happy with that, I thought you meant rent out to doubleclick or something.
First off, You'll notice I am *toying* with the idea of placing a banner ad on the web site. WineHQ generates a large amount of traffic. About 6,000,000 page hits a month.
Yowzers! I had no idea it received so much traffic, that's nuts!
There is some missing content pages yet on the site. I need someone to help volunteer by being a editor. The job consists of working purely on the text of the site. I've done my best to clean up the text so far. But, I doubt I will have much more time to do that.
Hmm, are you going to be using the screenshots Brian put together? I'm happy to volunteer for some parts, just say what's needed.
Let me know of oddities you find, and if your browser croaks completely or something on that order.
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