[IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

[,Josh williams]

Carol,

Thanks for the kind words. That's a good idea for providing a screen 
shot, that's what they do at addons.mozilla.org . It might be somewhat 
difficult however to implement an enlargeable thumbnail because the 
developers would have to create two images, and I would probably have to 
jump through a few hoops writing the javascript and editing the current 
a.sl.o code. I haven't looked at the code yet, so I don't know what the 
developers are looking at when they're uploading an activity or what 
would be involved for me, but it's a good idea.

Cheers,

Josh


Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
> I think a simple design such as Josh's is ideal to use for all kid 
> facing pages.  The school server could benefit from a similar theme.  
> Personally, while I think someone talented (as Josh obviously is) 
> could make a related theme for adults and kids, it is much more 
> important to have a less text-intensive, more kid-friendly face for 
> the target audience, which is kids.  One comment on the design 
> itself...perhaps have a thumbnail screenshot of the activity visible 
> for enlargement if available?  We could encourage authors to supply 
> one when the activity is submitted.
>
>
>
>         Things are kind of confusing right now
>     > with the different styles of wiki, trac, addons, schools,
>     gitorious, api,
>     > buildbot, etc.  planet is the lone exception, it seems to follow
>     > wiki.sugarlabs.org <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org> nicely :)
>     > It would be great if the Design Team could comment on this decision.
>     > Here are a couple other web infrastructure ideas:
>     > + Improve theming consistency among various SL.o sites.
>     > + Single sign on cookie among all SL.o sites - perhaps OpenID based.
>     > + Standard nav header atop all SL.o sites rather than the
>     various nav
>     > headers in different places, with different links.
>
>     The various gnome sites such as build.gnome.org
>     <http://build.gnome.org> and www.gnome.org <http://www.gnome.org> are
>     very nice examples of common theming tying sites together.  Some thing
>     similar for SL would be great.
>
>     david
>
>     > + Better splash page for Gitorious, looking more like GitWeb - a
>     page with a
>     > small search box at the top and the rest being a list of
>     projects, sorted by
>     > recent activity, showing owner and last commit details
>     > Best regards,
>     > Wade
>     > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM, ,Josh williams
>     <joshcwilliams at gmail.com <mailto:joshcwilliams at gmail.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi, I'm working on the design of sugar labs add-ons with Mick
>     Weiss.
>     >> I've created a mock up at
>     http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design
>     >> but I've haven't been able to contact anyone on the design team
>     as of
>     >> yet. I would also like to volunteer some of my time for other
>     projects.
>     >> I'm primarily a front-end designer with XHTML/CSS JavaScript
>     skills, but
>     >> I also know some PHP/MySQL and have a background in Linux. I
>     also enjoy
>     >> creating icons, so if there are any activities developers that need
>     >> icons please contact me. My portfolio is over at
>     http://tucsonlabs.com .
>     >>
>     >> If you're a member of the design team or have some use for my
>     skills,
>     >> please let me know.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks
>     >>
>     >> Josh
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