Design

[colinkiama]

@Suzie97

[Suzie97]

Initial text styles and the colour palette (which is straight copy of the elementary palette for now) have been created in the Figma file.

[pervoj]

Where can we reach the mockups in Figma?

[colinkiama]

https://www.figma.com/file/hOC3cJpOmUmWjKUdkXpmBH/Home-Page?node-id=0%3A1

[Suzie97]

As for the Information Architecture, I think this needs some research so that we are clear about what our audience, their goals, needs and wants.

We can setup a form which can be sent to potential users, so that we have some actual statistical data about what our users want, and then continue to think about the content of the website based on the results.

Let me know if this is feasible, and worth it in your opinion.

[colinkiama]

I think that this is feasible however, I don’t think that should be done immediately.

I think that the top priorities for the initial launch should be:

• Giving the language a home that is outside of the GNOME Wiki.
• Making the site easy to maintain
• Making the Vala repository and communities easily disoverable
  • Visitors should be able to access the source from any page on the site in one click

The existing design has been approved by the community on Matrix already and we have guidance from existing issues in this repo like: https://github.com/colinkiama/vala-www/issues/1

[Suzie97]

Initial concept for the Who Uses Vala section. The idea is to show off the more important projects like this and mention other ones using text only below them.

[pervoj]

@Suzie97 there is GNOME Circle, but it doesn't include all GNOME community projects

[Suzie97]

@Suzie97 there is GNOME Circle, but it doesn't include all GNOME community projects

It's not all vala exclusive apps

[Suzie97]

Here is an idea, we can use awesomeopensource.com and then filter searches to show Vala and GNOME apps only, then straight up link to that

https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/gnome/vala

[naipotato]

@Suzie97 There is no official logo for third-party projects in GNOME. There is what is called the GNOME Circle, but it does not include all projects, as you need to meet a number of requirements and apply to be part of it.

[lw64]

I would just pick 10 good-looking and still maintained apps and copy the icons over into this repo.

[colinkiama]

How do you all feel about the latest long-term support and stable and version numbers and release dates being on the homepage somewhere?

[pervoj]

I think it's a good idea

[lw64]

That is only really useful for downstream developers and for a few other cases I think, and shouldn't be on the main page.

[dar5hak]

That probably belongs on an installation guide.

[lw64]

I have a few issues with the current design:

1. The violet and white have a really hard contrast and also something like a secondary color or a bit more soft/relaxed looking would be good.
2. The code view in the middle takes extremely much space. I think on Desktop it could go to the right side, so on the left could go text.

[lw64]

Here is a quick draft how I could imagine the website:
vala-website.pdf

[colinkiama]

I like the layout, it reminds me of the old design: https://github.com/colinkiama/vala-www/discussions/37