[RFC] Website refresh for 2.0.0

[Ian Clatworthy]

Russel Winder wrote:

> Is the yellow on hover, "skip to" bar at the top a drafting artefact or
> part of the final system.

It's meant to be there. It's now a single line in the latest version
thanks to Emma.

> As others have mentioned the highlighting behind the three navigation
> icons is a bit strange, it highlights a block with arbitrary boundary
> (conceptually) but offers no link, only moving over the icon itself
> leads to the link.
> 
> I wonder if the central icon should just be the Bazaar icon with no
> overlay rather than this amended one?

Emma has fixed these in the latest version.

> The "Used by" box highlights but is not a link.  I would have thought
> the icons would link you to the named organization.  I am not entirely
> convinced by the "and you".

I guess it could link through to http://bazaar-vcs.org/WhoUsesBzr if we
thought that was useful?

> Does qdiff have to be downloaded as a Bazaar plugin separately from the
> qbzr plugin?  The phrasing implies it does, when in fact it is bundled.

qdiff is only available as part of QBzr. Maybe we should say "... using
QBzr" or drop the reference/link to the plugin repository in the
image/carousel?

> There is something weird feeling about the gradation and the initial
> intensity of the yellow on the backgrounds.  The upper and lower blue
> are neither the same nor reflections of each other.  The yellow isn't
> graduates in the same structure as the blue below.  Obviously though
> this is a personal observation, but I guess I just like structured
> symmetry.

To be frank, our main focus right now is "just right" content and
ensuring we're linking to stuff site visitors will care about. I'm
certainly not going to play with colours at this point though Emma is
free to tweak that sort of thing if she thinks the cost-benefit is worth it.

> This is the opening page, what is the plan for the other pages?  Clearly
> there has to be a whole-site brand style, but it isn't clear from this
> opening page what that might be.

Emma has some plans there. Right now, the immediate focus is:

1. A good-looking, useful home page. Done I believe.

2. Ensuring the Wiki and/or documentation provide the necessary
   secondary pages in a good enough form. Almost done I hope.

> Overall, I think the new design works nicely.  I do think though the top
> blue section below the menu bar is too tall.  The height of the qdiff
> image could be shrunk without loss of impact.
> 

We're bikeshedding on this and need to move on. I experimented with
using that banner space more effectively by putting the news up there
but that was rejected by Martin. I experimented with moving the "Bazaar
is used by" next to the news and Emma has rejected that. I had hoped to
get the top line of the footer links visible on a 1024x768 screen
*without* needing to scroll but it's really a minor detail vs explaining
why Bazaar rocks and making it damn easy for new users to get Bazaar
downloaded. Let's focus on the latter stuff please.

Ian C.