Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:40:45AM -0500, Curtis Napier wrote:
> If there are no more outstanding issues reported I will submit this 
> current layout for approval.

there's still a ton of wasted space in the purple bar ... if that was
tightened up, more news could be displayed ... having the last two or
three news items on the front page is pretty helpful imo and would
help to offset all the space created by the large ad sidebar

> The artwork is all part of the winning design. Any issues with the 
> infinity symbol should have been addressed a year ago.

well it clearly wasnt, might as well cover it now before the site goes
live ... as i pointed out, considering its location, this means that
our new logo basically becomes gentoo with an infinity sign

> I actually implemented a search that used google much like the example 
> that was posted here. The search was discussed at length with the 
> project lead and it was decided that using a third party search engine 
> such as google was unacceptable.

why ?  we all know google is great and the implementation would be both
cheap and quite usable

> Gentoo is a not-for-profit but, 
> unfortunetly, it is the wrong kind of non-profit so Google will not 
> sponsor us.

i dont see why a simple form redirect to google would require any sort
of sponsorship ... the thread fork to hardware at google was weird
anyways

> *all extraneous information and decorative news headers were removed 
> from the front page to help readability and to bring focus to the 
> information. This includes the cow image and text. Overwhelming amounts 
> of information on the front page should no longer be a problem. This 
> also brings the jumppads closer to the top so new users will be better 
> able to spot them.

seems like everything was cut ... now the frontpage is just a simple
site index page ?  i liked the simple cow/about blurb myself
-mike
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