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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:40:49PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 5/31/11 2:39 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:37:21PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >> On 5/31/11 1:56 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> >>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >>>> On 5/31/11 1:49 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:05:44PM +0200, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
> >>>>>> On 05/31/2011 01:04 PM, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 5/31/11 1:03 PM, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 05/31/2011 12:58 PM, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>> revno: 296
> >>>>>>>>> committer: Harish Narayanan<hnarayanan@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>>>> branch nick: fenics-doc
> >>>>>>>>> timestamp: Tue 2011-05-31 12:57:19 +0200
> >>>>>>>>> message:
> >>>>>>>>>    Removed<h2>   as requested by Marie
> >>>>>>>>> modified:
> >>>>>>>>>    source/_themes/fenics/layout.html
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I've merged fenics-doc/1.0 with fenics-doc as you might have noticed ;-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Please push there.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Done.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Great, thanks :-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What is the motivation for the merge? Luckily the cronjob that
> >>>>> automatically pulls from fenics-doc and publishes it on the web page
> >>>>> is not running. (And I would like to keep it so until the pages are
> >>>>> ready for launch.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As discussed last week (with either Marie or Harish, don't remember),
> >>>>> perhaps it is more natural now to put the web pages under fenics-web
> >>>>> instead of fenics-doc (now that the actual docs are located in the
> >>>>> projects)?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Harish: what we will get from the designer is the main logo to be
> >>>>> placed in the top right corner of the red banner, or perhaps the
> >>>>> entire banner including the logo and the text "FEniCS Project" in that
> >>>>> special font. We will also get a bunch of icons in various sizes and
> >>>>> formats (desktop install, small thumbnail for newsitems etc), so feel
> >>>>> free to move ahead with the design/structuring of the main page any
> >>>>> time.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is this designer not providing some sort of overall look for the site as
> >>>> well?
> >>>
> >>> I have not asked for that specifically since I kind of like what we
> >>> have now. Do you think I should ask for that as well? That may take
> >>> more time.
> >>
> >> Designer-like people have a knack for coming up with an overall look
> >> based on the same vision that made the logo. So I thought it might be a
> >> good idea to ask. We can still work on things with the current design
> >> until then.
> >
> > ok, I'll add that to the list. I think it would help if you added a
> > rudimentary version of the former Wordpress layout as a mockup so he
> > could use that as input.
>
> I don't understand, you mean some screenshots?

My suggestion would be to just add it to new fenics-doc (fenics-web)
branch (in HTML/CSS), place the newsfeed in it's appropriate box and
fill the other boxes with some rudimentary design.

Or if it's easier, just create an image where just draw/copy-paste in
the boxes onto a screenshot of the current web page.

--
Anders