[OH-Dev] Asheesh's front page suggested changes

[Asheesh Laroia]

Excerpts from Jessica Ledbetter's message of Fri Oct 14 10:45:21 -0400 2011:
> Probably works if you run it locally though. I don't think it's on
> openhatch.org.
> 
> Maybe screenshots?

I might send screenshots soon. For the next 1-4 hours, these links will work:

http://rose.makesad.us:8008/static/front-page-demos/karen/landing.html

http://rose.makesad.us:8008/static/front-page-demos/asheesh/front-page-demo.html

Give it a look!

People's thoughts from IRC in the past 30 min or so:

<aldeka> paulproteus: Have you looked at my frontpage design mockup yet?
<paulproteus> That's next on the Q
<aldeka> Cool.
<paulproteus> I really like a lot about your mockup.
<paulproteus> It's so much cleaner than the current front page.
<paulproteus> I think I'd swap column 2 "local events" with column 3 "pitch in"
<paulproteus> I like how in yours, the recent activity + blog posts make visual sense, whereas I ran out of space for them.
<paulproteus> I like how in mine I get to advertise diversity outreach and separate our events from others' events.
<paulproteus> But maybe we can save that for /events/
<paulproteus> It'd be really nice to brag about how good we are at diversity-oriented outreach on the front page.
<paulproteus> Maybe (?!) when you mouseover the "events" box, you see more info in the top box.
<paulproteus> That's an idea I nabbed from http://37signals.com/
<paulproteus> The dark background works great.
<paulproteus> More vertical space between the wide "OpenHatch is a..." box and the 3 boxes below might be nice.
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<paulproteus> Events aren't always "local" but we can s/local events/outreach events/ maybe (or come up with other verbiage)
<paulproteus> I would also change the top nav: s/missions/training/ ; s/volunteer opportunities/projects/
<paulproteus> ditch link to people (controversial maybe)
<paulproteus> shrink "log in / sign up" (controversial?) since it's not that important
<paulproteus> I like the return of sufjan on the front page.
<paulproteus> </feedback>
<paulproteus> All in all, I think we/I should tweak yours in the above ways and ship it.
<paulproteus> What do you think?
<paulproteus> aldeka: ^
<paulproteus> I'd be curious what e.g. jesstess thinks
-*- paulproteus will expose it to the web
<paulproteus> http://rose.makesad.us:8008/static/front-page-demos/karen/landing.html
<paulproteus> (via my laptop)
<paulproteus> paroneayea: Feedback on http://rose.makesad.us:8008/static/front-page-demos/karen/landing.html (as opposed to openhatch.org/ ) ?
<paulproteus> decause: You too, if you're around
<Triskelios> untouched by the new layout, but the activity box is still really dense
<paroneayea> paulproteus: wow
<paroneayea> that looks almost exactly like the layout we're intending for mediagoblin.org :)
<paulproteus> Well it's AGPLv3 I presume since aldeka pushed it (-:
<paroneayea> http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/goblin/homepage/test2.png
<paroneayea> looks good though
<paroneayea> I think the sell it / direct people / newsposts breakdown is great
<paroneayea> zeitgeist!
<paulproteus> re: activity box: http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/front-page-demos/asheesh/front-page-demo.html has more visual padding and fewer (only 3) entries. Would changes like that be enough to fix? Is one more important -- decrease number we show; increase padding -- ?
<paulproteus> rose.makesad.us:8008/static/front-page-demos/asheesh/front-page-demo.html
<paroneayea> localghost :)
<paulproteus> Maybe underneath "OpenHatch news" we can have a box that says "How to get involved"
<Triskelios> paulproteus: I think ideally fewer entries at a time, but expandable or scrolling

-- Asheesh.