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[Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Blueprint changed by Alfredo Hernández:

Whiteboard changed:
  [Niels Vermaut] "As ideas go, I would like to keep the website as clean
  and simple as possible. I could add in fancy effects like Parallax
  Scrolling, but I don't see the added value for that. I also would advice
  against sliders, and just use a small animated header with Animate.css.
  
  As far as Brand consistency goes, you guys need to fill me in :). I'm
  also always wanting to listen to new ideas!
  
  Is there a need for a custom Wiki, or are we going to use the Ubuntu
  Main one? And is there a need for a knowledge base of some sort? Because
  I also could look into something like that!
  
  The draft I made is available at 188.226.254.37"
  
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  [aldomann] Sorry Neils, I had a very basic mockup and our great Satyajit came up with this thing: http://cl.ly/image/031I1y2o1r0D/o
  As you can see, it keeps simplicity as its main feature whilst showing a modern design.
  
  We shall discuss what navigation links we need to include in the web
  (Blog, community, etc.) but this design should help.
  
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  [Niels Vermaut] "That design does look very well, and If I get the go signal from one of you guys, I could start working on it tomorrow. The only thing I would change is I would put the latest news article under the download button. Anyone having a problem with that, or having another suggestion, I'm all ears."
  
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  [aldomann] Let's wait for the Communications team folks to hear their opinions on the website structure.
  
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  [Niels Vermaut] "Okay, will hold my horses :). The only thing to consider is that now I have a lot of free time, execution could be done very quickly. However, this will change in July and August. Not that I won't have any time, but I won't achieve completion in one or two days then."
  
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  [jamesvorder] Are we still pursuing this? If so, we should really set up a shared folder of some sort to house our PSDs, create more detailed mock-ups of each page.  I can help with this (even though I'm not part of the correct teams,) if we still want to pursue the redesign.
  
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  [Logical] Hi, I am new at this community, so don't get mad at any of my
  ideas :)
  
  I suggest that we go for "fancy effects", like Niels said. We should make a website that differs from others.
  If you watch websites like:
  
  http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
  https://www.opensuse.org/en/
  http://www.linuxmint.com/
  http://elementaryos.org/
  https://www.debian.org/
  https://getfedora.org/  (seems like couple days ago fedora changed their website look)
  https://www.mageia.org/en/
  http://www.centos.org/
  https://www.archlinux.org/
  
  All these websites are static, they are functional but not inviting (for
  me). I suggest that we add some effects simple parallax or some basic
  nice effects, but not fancy stuff sparkling and that. I will make some
  examples of what i mean.
  
  Why we should do it this way?
  -because it will make the visitor want to try out the distro
  -it something new,
  -it also gives the visitor the feeling that the community is keeping up, inviting
  -etc
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+ [aldomann] Fancy effects may be different, but not better. They only end
+ up slowing down the website, specially parallax. We need a pretty, yet
+ functional (parallax is anything but functional) design.
+ 
+ We already have a somehow final design (or definitely a design route, if
+ you want); we are just discussing technical stuff before we start
+ implementing it all.

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