FOSS4G'13: Website Design Brief

Website Design Brief

Last saved by Antony Scott on September 27, 2012

Below is a 'straw man' design brief for discussion/extension/dissent(ion)

A compelling banner, incorporating dates, logo, OSGeo logo (AGI logo?)

A three-coluumn design to allow more content 'above the fold', eg sponsors + content + feeds, or menu + content + feeds, or some other combination
More content/links/widgets generally on home page
More width (See Denver, Victoria, Sydney, Cape Town)
A colour scheme (background, surround, text, linked text, headings) to run through the site
Clearer/bigger headings for feeds (ie Twitter, blogs, news)
Smaller font size for body text
Smaller headings on main pages (in fact consistent heading sizes and heirarchy throughout)
Footer with contact, credits (OSGeo logo?)
Smaller pictures with no (or shadow?) border, smaller captions
Less vertical space above and below headings
More prominent menu items
etc

Comments

Antony Scott on September 25, 2012:

Hi all

Here's a proposal for a design brief for the website. Suggest we edit/add comments over the next few days with a view to getting something tied down by the end of the week (29th) so that Barry has something to work with (assuming we are taking up Jo's kind offer on his behalf). Jo/Barry - what other questions do we need to answer?

Might be good for people to add a note underneath when they've reviewed, so we know when everyone has seen it.

Antony

Barry Rowlingson on September 26, 2012:

If Jo and Barry are around in Lancaster this week then we three could meet up to discuss design over beers in our local. I'm free any evening, or during the day time come to think of it.

Jo Cook on September 26, 2012:

Barry (K, hubby) says he could meet Barry R in the Gregson tomorrow evening- so could Barry R email Barry K at info@cookandkaye.co.uk to arrange a time?

I may or may not be there- but I'm happy for you two to discuss it and let me know if there's anything I need to do from an infrastructure perspective.

Jo

Jo Cook on September 26, 2012:

Also, having reviewed the document- most of this looks fine to me and something eminently tweakable in css so should be no problem. Picture border style is, I think, set when you insert a picture- it just has the shadow as a default. I might be wrong there though!

Content- is up to us and not the designer- what more do we want to see on the home page?

Jo

Barry Rowlingson on September 26, 2012:

Was there one community submission for a logo? I don't think we've seen that - was Rollo handling that?

Jo Cook on September 26, 2012:

I *think* we got one from Mr Iliffe, but I don't recall seeing another- and I'm not sure where that ended up either!

Rollo Home on October 2, 2012:

I've loaded up what we've received to basecamp (4 so far, from 3 different people - is the 'bow' one from Mark then?)
https://basecamp.com/1920286/projects/762306-foss4g-13/todos/14845962-create-design-brief