Re: this is a modern way to present a project

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Hi Riccardo,

at first I was a bit shocked by your reaction. Then I thought that you just 
might have the impression, I was going to criticize your work. This wasn't the 
intention of my message. I just happened to come across that elementary os web 
page and liked the light and simple style of it. Yeah, it looks appleish, but 
also with a different design style it would look not to crammed. I thought 
about how this was done: presenting an appetizer using a pleasing look 
(obviously the Apple look is pleasing to a lot of people) and so make people 
look closer and scroll, the scrolling then reveals more appetizers which link 
to the real stuff. They did avoid cramming to much information into a small 
space by doing so. I found this idea inspirational and wanted to share it. 
Maybe I should have explained this better at first hand.

Today I found an insightful article which is about an analysis on how users 
interact with web sites. trigger words seem to play a very important role in 
this:

http://www.uie.com/articles/trigger_words/

cheers,

        Lars

Am 07.02.2014 um 09:26 schrieb Riccardo Mottola:

> Hi,
> 
> Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>> I see this as an inspirational source for those who aim to redesign the web 
>> pages of GNUstep:
>> 
>> http://elementaryos.org/
> well, the site looks like an iOS-rip-off.. and the OS itself like a Mac ghost 
> :) And how buch bluff and hot air! Aww, my eyes are hurting!!!
> 
> While I don't like the overall impression it is quite coherent with the 
> product itself. Thus for sure it is a better presentation than ours (or wait, 
> we are coherent with the way we are, that's the problem!).
> What strikes is the coherency in all parts, they have a small team it 
> probably comes from that too
> 
> It reassures me however that many concepts I am trying to implement in the 
> design are on that site! That means I'm on the right track.
> 
> They have one big advantage: they have "much less stuff". At least, at a 
> first glance, then it is half true.
> Full of features? after 10 minutes of browsing, I was only able to know about 
> 5 apps! Wow!
> 
> A quite strong critique: the site hides a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff is 
> behind several clicks. That way it "looks" simple. At GNUstep, everybody 
> would complain that "his" part would be hidden deep., be his part a compiler 
> comparison or mac porting tutorial.
> 
> The site for me has a big no: it looks simple, but it isn't. What, you put 
> just three items in the navbar? and the... stuff all the rest at the bottom. 
> This is terrible! it is false-simplifcation! The gnome webiste has the same 
> trouble. It took me some time in a discussion with Gregory to convince him 
> that it is bad.
> The other big no? It is not responding, it looks bad on your phone. 
> Obvioulsy: the fact above denies that.
> 
>> 
>> for those interested: this is GTK based (sadly not GNUstep) 
>> http://elementaryos.org/docs/code/hello-world
> :)
> 
> It was nice to see some concepts, criticized here, that work there (e.g. Long 
> webpages, no scrolling sections, etc).
> 
> I will thus continue with my design, which has much in common, but tries not 
> to make certain errors. The problem is the content!
> 
> Riccardo
> 
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