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Re: [phoenix-dev] Draft: Phoenix project page
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Andrew,
http://eclipse.org/phoenix is the Phoenix project page. The purpose of
that page is to offer a Web gateway into the Phoenix project (after the
newsgroup and mailing list, this is The Phoenix Home). It doesn't need
to be innovative or extravagant, it's only there to provide information
on the actual project. In fact, if we change all the visual elements, it
will stick out like a sore thumb among all the other Eclipse projects.
I think we should focus our energy on the project itself, not on the
page that talks about the project. Also, last time I checked, you are
an Eclipse committer and you have write access to that page. Feel free
to modify it as best you please!
http://dev.eclipse.org/cvshowto.html
Things I would like to see include
1. A project site that is not in frames and incorporates the
universal elements we have already identified.
This would be a good idea, but right now we don't have a CMS in place to
easily break out of these frames, and I don't want to impose PHP on anyone.
2. The project background, statement and objectives clearly stated
on the project home page
I thought they were, in the About the Phoenix Project. How verbose does
it need to be? If you send me the text that needs to go there, I'll
gladly add it.
3. Consistent Communications - the message conveyed is "are you good
with graphics or website design?" The vocabulary surrounding these
communications is very important. Our call for submissions is for
skins or graphical templates. The phoenix project as a whole is
about website design, focusing on the information design and using
graphical elements to support this.
We already have resources to focus on the information design, but we
currently have no resources for templates or skins. We have wireframes
and Conceptual AI documents that indicate how the information should
flow already, but we need to get some form of presentation layer in. The
UI is not the complete scope of the project, but it's the area we're
lacking right now.
4. A new navigation scheme for the our project that improves common
elements for all projects
This will be implemented in the CMS. I see no need to hack it into our
project page.
I do however like the use of icons. Are these all Eclipse icons?
These are icons that several other tools and technology projects are
using on their project pages.
Denis
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
*From:* phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Denis Roy
*Sent:* Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:35 PM
*To:* For developers on the new Eclipse.org website project.
*Subject:* Re: [phoenix-dev] Draft: Phoenix project page
Looks great, Susan! Thanks for taking the initiative to start this.
I added a page for the call for design templates, modified the CVS
link and added a couple of other links.
BTW: our project is now fully provisioned...
Denis
Susan Iwai wrote:
The Phoenix project page draft is live - suggestions, changes,
additions welcome!
Susan
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