Re: [Firebird-website] Main page redesign

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

1. Font is too big for for my taste on desktop and laptop, and actually 
still quite small on a mobile device. A quick scan of the CSS seems to 
indicate that it doesn't use responsive CSS; consider varying at least 
the fontsize a bit.

2. Move the date below the title of the news item. I think the newsitem 
itself is more important than the date it was published

3. Can't we just remove those twitter & facebook buttons. I don't see 
their value.

4. It is existing content, but I find the Firebird 3 "New SQL Features" 
a bit unbalanced. I would expect the text Firebird (and the logo) to be 
bigger (eg the full width), while the "New SQL Features" should be a few 
points smaller than the text Firebird.

5. Removing the banner with Welcome, etc is ok. But consider putting 
the content of Get started and Contribute (and maybe Stay in touch) 
elsewhere on the site and linking to it from the sidebar (between latest 
releases and case studies).

6. Personally, I'd like the menubar to get a makeover as well, but I 
don't think that has priority.

As a side note, I was a bit surprised to see "/* --- IBSurgeon 
subscribe --- */" in the css ;)

Mark

On 2016-05-26 17:34, Alexey Kovyazin wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The first iteration is ready
> http://md186.dqteam.com/en/start/
>
> Please give some feedback.
>
> Regards,
> Alexey
>
>
>
> 17.05.2016 18:24, Dmitry Yemanov:
>> Alexey et al,
>>
>> Maybe somewhat beyond the intended redesign, but anyway:
>>
>> 1) More news items than just last three. Preferrably in the short 
>> form
>> (only date + title), maybe except the top one (as full text).
>>
>> 2) We should think about adding "Community News" parallel to 
>> "Project
>> News", maybe maintained by Carlos and other "newsmakers" directly 
>> (thus
>> deprecating firebirdnews.org). Or get their permission to mirror
>> community news on firebirdsql.org.
>>
>> 3) I believe we should remove the tabs (Get Started / Stay in Touch 
>> /
>> Contribute). That was my idea but now I don't think it works as
>> expected. As for "Stay In Touch", I propose to remove it completely,
>> instead I'll improve the /en/development/ page. Others could be
>> re-implemented as separate pages somehow linked from the main page.
>>
>> 3) Left-side banners (Join / Follow Us / Newsletter) should be 
>> reworked
>> to become smaller, down to just icon/button with hyperlink, and 
>> maybe
>> moved elsewhere. Currently they don't work good on any page with
>> contents - ugly looking below the left-side menu, sometimes fully or
>> partially invisible without scrolling.
>>
>> 4) The same for the top-side banners on contents pages (Latest 
>> Release /
>> Contribute / Tracker). They're well visible but take too much space.
>>
>> 5) Remove grey-line borders around page contents.
>>
>>
>> Dmitry
>>
>>
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