Proposals for new design

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From @teevik on February 7, 2018 14:32

I saw a discussion about this on the discord, and thought i would open up a issue for it

Anyone who wants to suggest a new design to use can post here, if they want to

Copied from original issue: DevvitIO/DevvitIO.github.io#10

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From @teevik on February 7, 2018 14:33

I'll also try to make a design

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From @sc0ttr0berts0n on February 7, 2018 15:48

You should discuss your goals for the new design. What do you wan the site to accomplish, and how do you get it front and center through your design?

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From @teevik on February 7, 2018 16:46

I'm not sure really. The content would be the same as the current one, so mostly just aesthetics

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From @sc0ttr0berts0n on February 7, 2018 17:39

I’d argue the goal of the site is to communicate that we are a discord community and a place for new devs to socialize with other developers and a place to collaborate. We should forward people to the discord and show our active projects.

_{Sent with GitHawk}

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From @sc0ttr0berts0n on February 7, 2018 17:40

As we do. But let’s make sure that the design best accomplished those goals.

_{Sent with GitHawk}

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In general the website just looks very bland imo, it serves its purpose but as a webdev community we want to look like we're not amateurs, imo. Something something competence etc.

I don't think that @teevik is saying that the website's purpose will change at all with his suggestions or design implementations, more-so that he is saying the website can be made to look more aesthetically pleasing while accomplishing the same goals @sc0ttr0berts0n

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From @sc0ttr0berts0n on February 8, 2018 0:31

well if the goal of the site is to portray an image of competence than we must design it as such. That’s all I’m saying.

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well if the goal of the site is to portray an image of competence than we must design it as such. That’s all I’m saying.

You probably meant

well if the goal of the design of the site is to portray an image of competence than we must design it as such. That’s all I’m saying.

and if so, ye ur rite

Imma go into a little bit of detail though so that anyone else who sees this set of messages would be able to get themselves up to speed.

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The Goal of the website

To inform an audience who have never previously encountered Devvit or are seeking more information about what Devvit is. It should inform the audience the basics of what the purpose of the organization and have all of the information a newcomer would want if they wanted to get involved, available to them.

The Underlying Tone

A person who comes to the website should get the impression, based upon the design that we know what we're doing and that there isn't anything amateurish about the organization. ie: what I would describe as competence

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In case you hadn't seen this issue about

that ideally is our about page/what Devvit is

If nebody has question feel free 2 ask

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From @sc0ttr0berts0n on February 8, 2018 14:35

Just to be clear, I 100% meant the goal of the site. The design should help to accomplish the goal of the website. The question is, what do we design to meet these goals. Visual Communication. I'm not trying to make this a lesson or debate what I'm trying to say. I'm just. trying. to. talk. about. the. sites. design.

I think the hero area in the current one is wasted space. And if were trying to convey professionalism and capability perhaps the area is better utilized with an HTML canvas background, or something technically complicated to set the mood. Something nobody has seen before.

I think the opening line (An Open Source community that started from people's...) should be more active in its messaging. It should encourage the user to join, not just say what were about. Say its for people who share these sentiments. The message is good, just it could be a bit more steered towards the reader.

Unless its a bad thing, maybe some meta data about the projects. (Current contributors, commits, etc). I'd ideally want this to suggest that these are active, lively communities that you could help out in. Maybe stats and facts is a way to present each of the projects as such.

Side note, that online users list for discord could be very useful for generating some sort of HTML canvas background showing us all hustling and bustling. Could get people excited about the community. I may work on that if people think its a good idea. I see all the users and their names floating in space like little atoms.

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From @LucasProgrammierStube on February 10, 2018 22:51

I like this atom idea. If you place the names so they look like several atoms I would design the whole website like natural science. Every project as an element etc.

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From @LucasProgrammierStube on February 10, 2018 22:52

In the design of a periodic table
Element "rad", "cms" etc.