GNOME Journal Redesign Coming Up
Well, I was informed that I once again have the pleasure of redesigning the GNOME Journal a second time. Thankfully, this time there isn’t a time limit of, We’re going live as soon as the design is done, k?
As fun as that was, its nice to have had some time to think it over properly, and I’ve decided to do several things differently this time:
- I’m going to keep the current article formatting style, but with enhancements — GNOME is all about usability etc., and having a full screen of text isn’t all that usable. Elastically sized article
div, welcome. - Smoother look — I was looking at Download.com the other day, and what really stood out was how smoooooooth the site looked. Definitely not a bad thing.
- More… help, more community — as it stands now, there’s no direct linkage to GNOME, or the GNOME community, and I’d like to bring that out a little more this time. In my original mockups, there was a highlights splash of sorts, drawing attention directly to it, showing of the best parts of the journal. Maybe some smaller highlights this time, and in a visual fashion as well.
Mockups later today.