Re: Candidate Info for Home Page

On 7 January 2011 12:09, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > Thanks to those that have responded so far. To everyone else... maybe a picture will help. I > have attached a revised (albeit crude) mock-up with a featured content grid and right-hand sidebar. > > What do you think of the elephpants? How about the 4x4 layout? And, of course, what info should > go where? If we go this way, I wouldn't go any denser than the 2x2 grid in the mockup: we don't want to overload people with information on the front page, IMO. I also share Daniel's concerns about aggregating external content. I realise there was a list in the first e-mail, but assuming there were four slots, I'd be interested to know exactly what other people think would be likely to be in there at the moment — I'm kind of struggling to fill the third and fourth slots without implicitly favouring an external site or event, such as a conference, which opens that can of worms around endorsements. My feeling would be something like this: Top left: information on the floating point bug with a link to the test script. Top right: support information; something titled like "Need Help?" with a one sentence summary of the basic options (mailing list, IRC, StackOverflow, whatever) and a link to /support. Bottom left: get involved. Bottom right: user groups. To be honest, as I've written this, I've kind of come to the conclusion that I actually prefer the existing news feed, and that we might be better off shunting the non-news information into the sidebar. :) I'm not too bothered about the elephpants one way or the other: they do add a bit of colour to the page, but I don't think that bar can be any bigger than it is in the mockup. Some people are on screens with limited vertical space. Adam