New websites
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Hi everyone! I'm Capsia, from the websites team. We're currently working on completely remaking our websites, and we want you to be a part of it! Our goal is to make things easier and more intuitive, so we're looking for your ideas, feedback, and suggestions. In the past few weeks I've been working on wireframes that I'd like to share with you.
For ubports.com, ubuntu-touch.io and lomiri.com
https://www.figma.com/file/n0dfchXYczDbjRgAfJkRss/UBports-websiteFor installer.ubports.com (has a different link, since it was built before):
https://www.figma.com/file/VMtvSUnGjKUiCLHyMuQ6QC/Installer-SiteThe goals, in general:
- Easier and intuitive
- Simplified ( less pages )
- Giving information for new contributors
- Remove outdated information
- Promote other projects like Lomiri, Halium, Ayatana and the installer
- Facilitate adoption of these projects by other distros
Community goals:
- Easy to access information about installation and troubleshooting groups
- Give indications about where the community meets and talks
- Spotlight valuable contributors
Contribution and project coordination:
- Share ongoing projects and let contributors share updates about those on the website
- Give information about the contact person to get involved in a project
- Give basic process and structure information on projects
- Give links to documentation and project resources
What needs to be done:
- Check all the text
- Add content to project pages and hot topics pages
- Update devices shown on ubuntu-touch.io homepage
- Complete Lomiri page
- Redesign donate page
- Add a page for manufacturers
- Redesign and update page for promoted devices
- Where and how to move FAQ, idea: since faq on telegram are updated and on the website are not, we could link (or embed) Telegram
How can you help?
- Sharing feedback and ideas
- Building documentation on projects and processes
- Making assets and images for the pages
- Checking and improving content
Question: For contributors, would you like to give updates on your projects on a static website using git or on a website builder given credentials?
Credits:
To @Kaizen for his original designs this project is based upon (see: https://forums.ubports.com/post/33598). To @Lga for providing awesome looking images of devices (see: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10106/phone-and-tablet-models-for-ubuntu-touch, more on how these will be used will be shared soon). To Bram, Kiek and Jeroen for Odoo implementation, project organization and documentation.
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I have a question, why suggest you a google account ?
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@carl said in New websites:
I have a question, why suggest you a google account ?
That's just a feature of the platform Capsia is using to show us these previews, you can ignore it, there is no need to log in at all.
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@Capsia The previews look very nice.
Maybe the "News" could even get their own main category. At the preview it is the subcategory "Blogs and Q&A" under "Community" and "Contact".
I also think the last Q&As where not summerised under: https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1
Is this because of the coming changes to the site or do you need help with that? Maybe I could summerise some Q&As, if I find some time.Thanks for the work and please keep it simple with the websites. Other websites blend some things in when you scroll down (often does not work on mobile) or you can not get rid of the cookie banner, when the browser does not allow cookies. This is often annoying for the user.
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Hi @johndoe . Sure, we can have a category for news too. My goal is to have a website that is simple to navigate both on desktop and mobile, so there will be design and testing to ensure that.
I don't write Q&A posts myself, but I forwarded your message to the right person
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@Capsia OK, thanks. I just saw that the summeries of the latest Q&As got added to the current website.
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I wonder if we could maybe add a heading with some screenshots of UT interface on the main website?
Regulary some people ask me how the UI looks like. (i.e settings, openstore, lomiri, web browser, calendar, etc.. ) -
Hello,
Just as an idea, we could have something like this?
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@stanwood Of course. Will be added in the next revision of the design process
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@Bolly Hi, aggregating community blogs sounds interesting. I'll take a look at how that works, but that's probably material for future enhancement.