[Pdweb] [PD] Editing CSS style, make pd.info better? [WAS: puredata.info site design provocation]

[András Murányi]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:31, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

>  On 03/12/2012 08:59 PM, András Murányi wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:20, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
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>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Scott R. Looney wrote:
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>> > yes i have to admit i'm starting to judge the relevancy of a website at
>> least in part with design modernity. was just looking at various open
>> source 3D gaming engines and i could instantly tell the 2003-2007 era from
>> the 2008-2012 era. i still investigated what each site had to offer, but
>> graphic presentation added to the friendliness/accessibility factor. sites
>> like the current Processing site and Openframeworks.cc seem cleaner and
>> easier to both attract users and navigate.
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>> > my thoughts on the design:
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>> > overall an excellent beginning to a new look! it started me thinking
>> about possible further improvements. so consider this a design brainstorm
>> thingy with NO obligation that anyone has to do what i'm suggesting
>> (especially Marco who started the ball rolling). i don't have any time to
>> do it at the moment (i'm avoiding grading right now) but it certainly gives
>> me ideas, so here we go:
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>> > Navigation
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>> > i'm not pushing this but it seems like side based navigation is sort of
>> less common on modern websites? the look is pretty modern and clean
>> however. Processing (2 columns) and Ofx (2 or 3 - not sure) both use top
>> navigation which i think draws the eye better. i resisted top nav for a
>> while but i think it relates better to subject matter. bigger more graphic
>> pictures on the front page of various projects i think will attract more
>> attention to the artistic aspects. a better top banner is a MUST.
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>> > Exhibition page
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>> > should definitely be overhauled with a much more graphic look whenever
>> possible. Marco's Xth-Sense, Billy's Helmholtz ship animation any other
>> graphic demonstrations of PD in action in realtime either audio wise or
>> using video manipulation ala Gem or whatever should be there in plain view,
>> not just a link to someone's website. No idea if Plone can do graphic grid
>> placement of thumbnails for videos but that's what comes to mind. i'm not
>> against a carousel video thing, but i think it's a consideration for future
>> design.
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>> > if it's just a patch processing audio, i don't know, maybe some audio
>> examples of the patch via a jquery-type player onscreen? the idea is to get
>> folks interested equally in what PD can do as well as finding out more
>> information about the artist if they are so inclined.
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>>  Sounds like good ideas.  If you think those projects should be on the
>> exhibition page, you should just add them:
>> http://puredata.info/docs/sitedocs/AddingToTheExhibition
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>> The only rule is that you can't put projects in the exhibition that you
>> had something to do with (no self-promotion).
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>> > Downloads and Distributions - separate categories
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>> > at the moment if i wanted to find out what PD-vanilla or PD-extended
>> was, i'd have to go to the Downloads page. i'm not sure if that's intuitive
>> enough. if i wanted to find out what a distribution was about versus
>> downloading it, i'm not sure if i'd go to Downloads.
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>> > so maybe something labeled Distributions? then put PD-vanilla,
>> PD-extended, and something like l2ork there? i see a huge amount of talk on
>> the list from Ivo about his version and some of it's benefits. i think it
>> should be listed there. there should be Download links of course as well.
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>> > Such a page might also be called 'About PD', give a brief
>> history/description of how PD itself works and then the other variants
>> listed below with download links?
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>>  One of the download sections is labels "distros".  Not good enough?
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>> .hc
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> Wouldn't l2ork belong there? If yes, is it technically possible to have it
> updated there?
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> I agree, someone just needs to actually add it :)
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> .hc
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Cool! :)

András
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