[OSM-talk] Front page design

[Andy Robinson]

There appears to be 100% support for Richards approach, perhaps with one or
two minor tweaks but essentially as he originally displayed it.

Has anyone though about writing the basic html for it? I'm assuming
Richards's original was just a graphical mock-up?

This is something we can implement now (subject to someone uploading to the
live machine). There is no need to wait for the rails implementation, albeit
that some of the clever code that needs to feed in to keep it up to date
will need to be prepared. In the first instance though a static version
would suffice for the next few weeks so long as the calendar info was
updated when required.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nick Whitelegg
>Sent: 14 September 2006 8:36 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design
>
>On Wednesday 13 Sep 2006 23:02, Dan Karran wrote:
>> On 9/12/06, Dan Karran <dan at karran.net> wrote:
>> > I've started a mockup, and will hopefully post it tomorrow once I've
>> > had a chance to put some more of it together. I guess the sort of
>> > thing I'm going for is the nice clean web2.*-like front page that
>> > turns into your own once you've logged in (think Flickr).
>>
>> Argh, tonight didn't work out expected so I haven't had a chance to do
>> anything on the design, and it's probably the last chance I would have
>> had until next week. I think Richard's design covered much of what I
>> was thinking though.
>>
>
>Yes - things I like about Richard's design include:
>
>* it emphasises the fact that it's a project to "draw a free map of the
>world"
>and engenders interest by asking "Has your town been mapped?" This sort of
>approach will, I feel, draw in users and minimise the sort of people who
>don't like OS copyright but when presented with a free alternative, say
>"there's nothing there yet...."
>
>* nice visual design. The three divisions with three aspects to the project
>"view" "edit" and "get involved". I agree with other comments about the
>rounded corners - they 'work' so why not have them....
>
>* 'next event' makes it look current and quickly gives potential users an
>idea
>of when the next meet is.
>
>Nick
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