[Thunar-dev] Website

[Foxtrot]

On 6/3/05, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Foxtrot wrote:
> > Ok, I've started work on the website. Currently, all I have is a VERY
> > basic demo of the site with only an extremely basic variant of the
> > front page. Thunar = Thor, the Norse Mythology thundergod, I seem to
> > recall having heard, and so I've based the site on that. By the
> > header, there are clouds and raging thunder in the background, while
> > there is grass by the footer.
> 
> Yeah, Thunar means Thor.
> 
> > I'll upload it to a Freewebs server later (like in 50 mins or so),
> > just thought I'd open this topic for brainstorming on Thunar-dev. Is
> > there anything in particular people would like to have on the website?
> > I have heard that the devs want forums, although I think that's more
> > of an administrative task and not so much a design task. The current
> > subpages I have are Home, Screenshots, Contributing, and Status (none
> > of which I've actually made, I've just put up links for them).
> >
> > I've also made a very rough/ugly sketch for a logo (Thor's hammer,
> > Mjoelner). I'm also thinking that I'll have some runes on the site to
> > suit the theme, as in the runes that the vikings used.
> >
> > If it sounds like I'm overdesigning, please let me know. ;-) The ideas
> > I'm presenting now are by no means final.
> 
> I like your ideas. Concerning additional information: It'd be nice to
> have some background information (updated regularly) about the
> development, design decisions (why does Thunar do it that way), and the
> like, on the website (dunno how to integrate that with the rest of the
> site).

I would have thought that these were things better suited for the
wiki, but I did have an idea of an extended "Goals" section, which I
must have forgotten somewhere along designing.

> > The main challenge right now is to find out what to associate with
> > Thunar. Should it just be a plain, old site like the Tomboy site with
> > a white background and some images of the app, should it follow the
> > Xfce sites' style, or should we try to be more creative by playing on
> > the name/file manager themes?
> 
> Personally, I prefer clean, simple sites with focus on the contents, but
> still visually appealing. For example, I like the design of the Beagle
> website (http://beaglewiki.org/). I don't know Tomboy, but if you are
> talking about http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/, then yes, that's a
> good example. I'm curious to see your design. ;-)

I like those sites too, I just don't like designing sites like that.
:-P Anyway, one of the reasons I thought of a night sky with thunder
is because white text on a blue background is allegedly easier to
read. Anyway, here's a link to a very quick mockup:

http://www.freewebs.com/halol/thunar/index.html

It might take some time to load as it's on Freewebs. What it shows is
a fixed width site with some of the contents and the main design
ideas. Stuff like a point list for a menu will be removed while I'm
polishing. Basically, this is a colour scheme (the background probably
won't be white, though), a layout, and some structural organisation
(in terms of markup and of content). I haven't gotten any details down
yet, like hover states, etc.

What I'm worried about is if it's too much "fun", or as you put it,
I'm not sure it's simple enough with enough focus on content.

> Benedikt
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