Thread: Alternate PostgreSQL.org Design
Hi Again, We would like to put forward an alternate design to the current wwwdevel design. It is available at: http://postgresql.tinysofa.com/ We believe that it is clean, professional and simple. And it makes the release of 8.0 actually... exciting. :) It is a *drop-in* replacement for the current pgweb design. No additional work is required to retrofit the current wwwdevel design. It's already done! It validates. It is designed for 800x600 and up. And it looks pretty. :) By clicking "About", you can see the design for the section navigation and the sponsor box. We've gone through a bit of the current content and fixed it up with proper headings and so forth. But we believe that the content needs to be restructured to fit within navigational guide lines. Some issues with the current content of the site: * There really isn't much there. A lot of the content is obviously written by separate people with different writing styles. The content also presumes that the reader has a lot of technical knowledge. * Many links just point to external websites without warning. The content should be pulled into the main site, or put under an "External Sources" heading. * The overuse of subdomains is a major pain. Each subdomain uses a completely different layout and design. X.postgresql.org should be under the relevant section on the main site. Advocacy should move under /about/. Developers has it's own section. Tech docs should move under Documentation, etc. Of course, we're willing to help out with the content if our design is used. :) Regards, Emily Boyd - and - Omar Kilani
Omar Kilani wrote: > It is a *drop-in* replacement for the current pgweb design. No > additional work is required to retrofit the current wwwdevel design. > It's already done! > And most people complain that although many people put forward suggestions, nobody really seems to contribute! Wow! Kudos to you Omar! If it where up to me (fortunately it isn't), PostgreSQL would *drop this in* immediately, end of discussion! Minor issues like not scaling perfectly, renames from "About" to "Overview" etc, well, they can be fixed in matter of hours. Regards, Thomas Hallgren