[Lprof-devel] Re: Site is up

[Hal V. E. <hv...@as...>]

On Saturday 26 November 2005 03:06 am, Liam O'Connor wrote:
> I've put the site up at http://lprof.sourceforge.net
>
> Take a look :)

For the rest of the team Liam miss-typed the URL for the test version of the 
home page(s).  It should be http://lprof/sourceforge.net/test  Please have a 
look and provide feedback on anything you feel needs your feedback.

This is definitely a step forward.  Here are my comments more or less in 
random order.

General stuff:

I like the way you incorporated the ICC v2 logo into the back ground.  Very 
creative.  But there might be legal issues with this.  The guidelines for use 
of these logos from the ICC are:

"ICC logo usage guidelines

The ICC logo(s) must be surrounded by a clear space at least equal to one-half 
of the width of the logo as shown in the illustration. Never use less than 
this specified minimum clear space. "

Perhaps the solution is to use smaller versions of the logo on either side of 
the background where there would be room to display the whole logo with 
enough space around it to satisfy the above requirements. 

It would be nice if the page would expand to fit the width of the browser 
Window.  Can you do this?

In the Copyright section the copyright should belong to everyone that 
contributed content not just me.  Not sure how to best handle this.  But in 
anycase I would prefer that my name not be there.  So perhaps created for 
lprof and copyright lprof.  I don't know - anyone else have any ideas about 
this?

I think that sourceforge requires that we place the sourceforge logo and link 
somewhere on the page.  This is the same one as is currently on the upper 
left hand corner of the existing home page. 

Should have said something about this earlier but it just occurred to me.  
There should also be a Donate to LPROF link that goes to the sourceforge 
donate page for the project 
http://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=146038  I 
believe that sourceforge has a standard graphic for this link.

Content is, of course, draft at this point.  I will work on getting more 
complete content for each section to you.  Also others on the team please 
feel free to contribute content.

The documentation link does not currently work.  I suspect that at this point 
you are still working on it.  This might be a good place to link to the help 
html.

Links page

On the links page I would put the "Profiles" link section last.  

In the Linux Distributions section for SuSE and Red Hat it should say "(No 
LPROF Page Available)"

The Other Links section should be divided into two sections - a "Other Links" 
section and a "Color Management Aware Software" section.  The last 8 and the 
LCMS and behrmann links belong in the CM Aware Software section.  The 
behrmann link text should be "Oyranos and ICC Examine"  Also capitalize the E 
in Enblend.  The text for LCMS should be changed to "Little Color Management 
System"

Also add the OpenICC Wiki http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc to the other 
links section.

Anyone have any other links that should be added?

Logo/icon

Again a step forward.  The original version of the logo the three balls were 
colored Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta.  In the new one these are yellow, blue and 
red.  This is something that probably only a color management person would 
catch but the two basic color systems that we use are CMYK (cyan, magenta, 
yellow, black) and RGB (reg, green, blue) so using yellow, blue and red in 
the logo will seem odd to the folks that are likely to frequent the site.  I 
know that as soon as I saw it I thought that something was not right and it 
took me a few seconds to realize that it was the mixing of the two color 
systems.  You will notice that in the ICC v2 logo they have used both but 
separated into two sections with the CMYK colors emanating from the eye.   I 
would suggest going back to CMY for the balls and changing the color of LPROF 
to black.  This would result in a CMYK logo.

Others on the team might have some additional ideas about this.  

Again thanks for getting this in place for the team to look at.  I would like 
to have the new site in production by the time the next development snap shot 
is released.   I would also like to use the new logo/icon for the next 
development snap shot.

Hal