aMule Forum
English => Skins & GUI => Topic started by: emerald on July 06, 2009, 06:37:03 PM
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Hello all :-*
I don't know where to post this...
What about changing the aMule's homepage skin ? The current homepage skin is ugly ;D
cya
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I don't know where to post this...
Best place to ask for this is either here (http://www.amule.org/amule/index.php?board=7.0) or here (http://www.amule.org/amule/index.php?board=37.0) - I'm undecided.
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No, seriously !
I can design the new homepage or can you organize a contest ?
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Sure you can. Please make a quick mock-up for your proposed style - and don't get discouraged if actually implementing anything takes a little longer. (See: soon (http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Soon))
Your sunday is not our sunday. ;)
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I give you my work and do what you want with it, the xhtml and css are ready :P
My design is relatively simple
Homepage : (customize it as you want)
(http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/878c8242-9660-4f1c-a828-b506535b0325.png) (http://tof.canardpc.com/show/878c8242-9660-4f1c-a828-b506535b0325.html)
Homepage :hover one logo : (the search input appears!)
(http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/8493936c-e230-4282-9713-29a672a4279a.png) (http://tof.canardpc.com/show/8493936c-e230-4282-9713-29a672a4279a.html)
Download page :
(http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/5cfd2475-9b92-4a23-ab2c-1beef12058d3.png) (http://tof.canardpc.com/show/5cfd2475-9b92-4a23-ab2c-1beef12058d3.html)
The icons are clickable :)
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Looks good, thanks for your work.
Actually I believe we have less content / our content organized differently.
The forum is most heavily used for everything, then there's the wiki and the bug tracker. That's about it. Does this fit to your design?
And why do you hide the search box? Isn't this bad from a usability perspective?
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I like it! :)
However it would be good to have the main page fit into the whole window, so the user doesn't have (can't) scroll on it.
Maybe the "Get it now" section could be shrinked vertically?
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And why do you hide the search box? Isn't this bad from a usability perspective?
Don't know, I was just testing :p
I like it! :)
However it would be good to have the main page fit into the whole window, so the user doesn't have (can't) scroll on it.
Maybe the "Get it now" section could be shrinked vertically?
Good idea but not compatible with all screen resolutions.
Quick preview here : http://khandalf.free.fr/amule/
Feel free to critique or get modifications : use the firebug firefox's extension if you wanna do quick modifications :)
And sorry for the bad english, I'm french ;D
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Hey, it looks really nice! :)
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Yes, it does. :)
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emeral, could you add support for translations for that web?
I mean something like www.getdeb.net (http://www.getdeb.net/languages.php) (transparent to the user as it depends on the browser user-agent locale)
The design is really very good :D
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emeral, could you add support for translations for that web?
I am not "emeral", but I don't understand this question. Do you mean "webpage"?
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The internationalisation webmaster's job, this is the design, not the application.
But it's simple to set it up with Rails
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It's simple to setup with apache and html-files, too. If proper configured, you just need a file with <file>.<lang>.html and it get's choosen when <file>.html is called.
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But how to generate dynamically the content with only apache ? ;D
I made the design, and they'll do what they want with it :P
I love rails lol
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I prefer Django (nginx+fcgi) myself, but we use Apache + PHP for aMule.
I received the data from emerald and I'll have a look at it. Please keep poking me if I don't show results or I'll priorize other things...;)
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Ok ;)
I'll add some cool things with jQuery Tools
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I think there's something like gettext for php around. If you could send me the data, I could fiddle a bit to get it working.
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I'll send you the data, but just creating a proof-of-concept with one string translated by gettext (PHP on Apache) would already be a big help.
IIRC, it was a bit problematic to change the language on run-time, but it's probably possible.
On a side note: I've decided to create a live-demo + repository for the new look for aMule.org. This way everybody interested has less problems contributing and testing of new features is easier.
I guess SVN is the way to go, although I'm increasingly fond of mercurial (and use it for private projects) and have heard mainly good things about git.
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I've decided to create a live-demo + repository
[...]
I guess SVN is the way to go
It's your choice, unless you want to host it on amule.org.
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OK, here we go:
Live demo: http://svn.johkra.net
SVN repo: - currently down -
Checkout is anonymous, please contact me for commit rights.
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I'd rather keep the CUTE new rabbit (and the rabbit has always been our logo).
And the penguin on the download page looks poor in comparison with the other icons.
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And the penguin on the download page looks poor in comparison with the other icons.
This is better:
(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/2602/imposters71detail.png)
;D ;D :D
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Some random thoughts after viewing demo.
Main page:
* White rabbit has been chosen as project logo - am I recall correctly?
* Replacing logo with screenshots on mouse-over is both annoying AND confusing.
* Chung of text after "what is amule" is too long and mostly irrelevant. History facts like "was forked from ..." doesn't belong here. Feature list too.
Downloads section
* Linux logo is wrong/bad/confusing/never-seen-this before. What happened to Tux?
Contribute page
* XCode icon is not public domain.
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And the penguin on the download page looks poor in comparison with the other icons.
This is better:
(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/2602/imposters71detail.png)
;D ;D :D
No it is not. Pleas put official Tux back - you didn't reinvent Windows logo either, didn't you?
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* Replacing logo with screenshots on mouse-over is both annoying AND confusing.
Yep, I was thinking that too, now that you mention it.
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Contribute page
* XCode icon is not public domain.
And Windows icon is in public domain?
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And Windows icon is in public domain?
No guesses?
Not only that XCode icon is not public domain, you're using it in confusing way. This icon is very OSX-specific, and not general-purpose symbol of "coding/programming".
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Thanks for all the feedback. I'll incooperated changes
asap soon™. And of course big thanks to emerald for giving us this beautiful design.
btw: Using the windows logo would be fair use (but ianal). I didn't know this was the Xcode logo, so it'll be of course removed.
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btw: Using the windows logo would be fair use (but ianal).
Agree. It's OK to use official icon to indicate platform.
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I actually have some icons that I'm planning to put on the current webpage. Funny that.
Other than that, every single thing lfroen said about the new page you can apply to my opinion too, if you add "holy shit it's too bright"
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Could you please send me these icons? I talked with Gonosz, btw, and I'm aware of your criteria.