Hi

note that I would not put KCP in the main page because we are really 
the cleaners :)
and nobody wants to know that up front.

For the scheme colors, could we have something more shining (less 
mustard and more orange) because
we are not GNU we are Squeak!!!!

Stef

On Dimanche, sep 14, 2003, at 11:35 Europe/Zurich, Giovanni Corriga 
wrote:

> Il gio, 2003-09-11 alle 09:59, Michael van der Gulik ha scritto:
>> Giovanni Corriga wrote:
>>> Il mer, 2003-09-10 alle 22:50, Colin Putney ha scritto:
>>>> Looks good to me. The only quibble I have is that I think it would 
>>>> look
>>>> better without borders between the table cells. Oh, and the right 
>>>> hand
>>>> column could be dropped if no immediate use is found. It would be 
>>>> easy
>>>> to put back later if it's needed.
>>
>> The right-hand column is there to make the page look more balanced, 
>> and
>> because lots of other web-sites do that too. I figured it would be a
>> great place to show things off; screenshots and the like. If I ever 
>> see
>> another free project somewhere, I always make a B-line for the
>> screenshots for the eye candy (okay, so I'm superficial :-P ). Squeak
>> has lots of eye-candy.
>>
>>> - the links under "Welcome to Squeak.org" are a bit redundant, given
>>> that they are also in the left column. Also, the header looks nicer
>>> without those three links.
>>
>> Those links are the things that I kind of assume people would use 
>> quite
>> often; shortcuts to the mailing list archive (where most of the action
>> is) and the swiki. I personally would not like to lose them.
>
> Yes, but they make the header heavier. Also, I don't know whether the
> mailing list is something that a new user would go and look for.
> Maybe we could take out the links under the header, and highlight them
> by placing them first in their category (see attachment).
>
>>> - we could add a Projects section just after the Community section,
>>> listing SqueakLand.org, the SqueakMap and Croquet.
>>
>> ...linking to a wiki site somewhere.
>>
>> Which reminds me. If the front page is the only page that has this
>> colour scheme / theme and all sub-pages are on the wiki, then I'm not
>> sure what sort of impression we'll be making on people visiting the 
>> site.
>>
>> Can a wiki also have some theme? I think it's moderately important to
>> have a bit of consistency; make things look fairly professional even
>> though Squeak is only all good fun.
>>
>
> I think it is possible to create a wiki theme which looks similar to
> squeak.org's homepage, but first we need to finalize the homepage look.
>
> 	Giovanni
>
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