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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:44:28PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 5/23/11 9:51 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:24:29PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 23/05/11 19:28, Anders Logg wrote:
> >>> The plan is to make it the default branch at the time of the release
> >>> of 1.0.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Do we have to wait so long? It would be good to get an updated web page
> >> online sooner.
> >
> > I'd like the page to be ready before it's launched so we can say: look
> > at our new web page.
> >
> > I'm sure there will be a couple of iterations before everything is
> > ready and I don't expect it to be ready long before the code is (if
> > that doesn't drag out).
> >
> > Things that still need fixin for the web page:
> >
> > 1. Newsfeed: Harish will fix
> >
> > 2. Download button: Harish will work on the sniffer, need to
> > coordinate with Johannes to connect to the right download links
> >
> > 3. Get documentation in place: Marie is working on this
> >
> > 4. Get new design in place: I'm meeting with the designer I hired on
> > Thursday to evaluate some proposals
> >
> > 5. Add missing information on pages: break up installation page in
> > smaller pieces / separate pages, complete citing page
> >
> > 6. Add a "featured item" on the front page. My idea (originally from
> > Harish) is to dedicate the upper left corner of the front page to a
> > featured item which will occupy the page for a number of weeks. This
> > will showcase interesting results obtained with FEniCS, and other
> > "articles" related to FEniCS.
>
> Is the following still the overall layout inspiration?
> http://home.simula.no/~harish/files/tmp/fenics-web-trial.png

Yes, with the addition that I'd like a big shiny download button with
some auto-detected text like so: http://getfirefox.com.

I'm imagining this somewhere in the upper right corner. Perhaps this
can be handled by giving the featured item 3/4 of the space, then the
download button + some short introductory text ("FEniCS is ... try it
out today") in the right 1/4 space just below the download button.

--
Anders