Website redesign

What's happening now

Current phase: #Get.fp.o feedback and #Spins.fp.o feedback

Introduction

This is a project to redesign http://get.fedoraproject.org and http://spins.fedoraproject.org that is being undertaken during the F12 release cycle by the Websites team with assistance from Design and Infrastructure.

Goals

Redesign the get.fedoraproject.org and spins.fedoraproject.org sites in a way that fits the requirements. We will determine metrics for improvement during the feedback-gathering phases, but in general, we want more Fedora contributors, and our strategy for this is getting more Fedora users.

The Board's goals in the Website redesign are:

• To make Fedora fresh, attractive, and inclusive for potential participants and contributors
• To more effectively promote a single instance of Fedora that satisfies the computing needs of the average person
• To provide an improved showcase opportunity for Fedora spins created by the community

History

• 2009-07-30 Board meeting - Board decides to do project; initial requirements discussion
• Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-08-13#Spins_and_Download_site_redesign - first mockups presented
• Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-08-20#Spins_and_Download_site_redesign - formal requirements approved
• Websites weekly meeting, Fri 2009-08-21 - schedule created

Schedule

• DONE: #Requirements gathering
• DONE: #First design mockups
• Aug 21 - Aug 28 : gather feedback, determine metrics, usability testing for spins.fp.o (mizmo)
• Aug 21 - Sep 04 : gather feedback, determine metrics, usability testing for get.fp.o (mizmo)
• Aug 28 - Sep 20 : Final design mockups for spins.fp.o (mizmo)
• Sep 04 - Sep 27 : Final design mockups for get.fp.o (mizmo)
• Sep 20 - Oct 20: convert spins.fp.o and get.fp.o to html/css (hiemanshu)
• Oct 20 : get spins.fp.o and get.fp.o onto infrastructure (ricky)

Requirements gathering

See Website redesign 2009 requirements for get.fedoraproject.org and spins.fedoraproject.org design requirements.

First design mockups

Owner: Mo Duffy

• First draft of mockups

Mockups currently found here: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/

Site map: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/wwwfpo_diagram.png

Pages numbered for easier discussion.

1) http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page1.png

2) http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/getfpo-16.png

3) http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-directory.6.png

4) check these out:

• http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/getfedora_format-tab.png
  • mockup: http://affix.fedorapeople.org/website_2009_redesign/getfedora_format-tab.png [Affix]
• http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/getfedora_format-tab.png
• http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/getfedora_arch-tab.png
• http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/getfedora_desktop-tab.png
• http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/getfedora_activity-tab.png

5) this is the actual ISO file

6) http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page3.png

7) no mockup yet

8) no mockup yet

9) no mockup yet

10-13) mockup sorely out of date but: http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Projects/Fedora Spins/Wireframes/spindetailsmock4.png

Feedback

There was an extended feedback thread on the fedora-advisory-board list, discussing both pages.

The 2009-08-27 Board meeting was devoted to design feedback, also on both pages.

Out of scope, but related: a design discussion on the main Fedora Project webpage that brings up many of the same design goals.

Get.fp.o feedback

This task is owned by Mo Duffy.

See the survey, results, and discussion.

Spins.fp.o feedback

This task is owned by Mo Duffy.

Mo's blog has some discussion on the first proposed spins design.

Final design mockups

This task is owned by Mo Duffy.

Convert to html

This task is owned by Hiemanshu Sharma.

Get on infrastructure

This task is owned by Ricky Zhou.

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