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GNUstep Redesign in Progress

After a recent thread on the GNUstep webmasters mailing list, I realized that the design I did for the site two years ago is getting a bit stale. I took a few off-peak hours the other day to put together something new.

Big version available on Tree House Ideas downloads.

Adam seems to like it, and I think it's a good design. There are at least a few tweaks I have to make, and I need to come up with a secondary page design, but this should be straightforward.

One of the comments from the thread that stood out in my head is that the current site is mainly aimed at the existing base, and doesn't attempt to reach out to new users. I think this is valid criticism, so I oriented the design around making GNUstep more accessible.

I also think GNUstep needs some "flagship" tutorials that are the first point of contact for new developers and users. Adam added on to this by suggesting separating the user and developer sites, which I think makes a lot of sense.

GNUstep Redesign in Progress
Posted Aug 19, 2005 — 5 comments below

Gregory Casamento — Aug 28, 05 361

I love this!! We should use it. :)

Stefan Urbanek — Aug 28, 05 362

I love it too! It looks modern, very elegant and most importantly I know where I can find what I am looking for.

Thom Cherryhomes — Aug 28, 05 363

I suggest, and I will do ALL the heavy lifting, to put this into a TYPO3 content management system, so that we can get what we all want in this system, in terms of functionality and manageability.

Scott Stevenson — Aug 28, 05 364

Thom:

Sound fine to me. I'm not involved in any of that, though, so it's easy for me to agree. :)

Thom Cherryhomes — Aug 29, 05 365

I think we need to bring this up to both gnustep-discuss and gnustep-webmasters.... although I have a feeling it's gonna be a hard sell.. some of those guys are hard-headed.

-Thom

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