Re: [gef-dev] Modernization of GEF Main Project Page

[Anthony Hunter <anthonyh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That would be great Alexander. As far as
I know this is the new Nova theme. We should adopt if it is easy. The banner
looks great to me as well.

Cheers...
Anthony
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From:      
 Alexander Nyßen <Alexander.Nyssen@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 GEF development <gef-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 12/03/2010 03:29 AM
Subject:    
   [gef-dev] Modernization
of GEF Main Project Page
Sent by:    
   gef-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi team,

when I was working on some Bugzillas concerning outdated information on
our main project page (http://www.eclipse.org/gef),
I gained the impression that the relevant information is not very easily
accessible. That is, the user has to scroll the main page to access documentation,
and some sections like the build news do not present any information at
all, due to the broken modeling build infrastructure. 

I thus looked into some other project pages to see how information is organized
there. From what I learned, it seems to be that several other projects
already have adopted a new look & feel, using 4 main entry buttons
(Download, Documentation, Support, Getting Involved) directly right to
the project logo, compare e.g. CDT (http://www.eclipse.org/cdt)
or EGit (http://www.eclipse.org/egit),
as well as Papyrus (http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/papyrus/)
and others. 

I personally like this new "fresh" look and feel and thought
about whether we could adopt it for the GEF homepage as well. As the general
stylesheet for all pages does not seem to be affected, it would - as far
as I see it - only have impact on the main page, where - from my point
of view - the only hindrance seems to be that our logo does not fit quite
well into the light purple "star spangled" banner background
theme used by all these projects. After two hours of GIMPing (I am not
really an expert with painting tools :-(), what you find attached is my
interpretation of how such a banner background could be combined with the
GEF logo...

What do you think? Please comment!

Cheers
Alexander

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