Homepage design improvements

cgiovando commented 5 years ago

@rsoden can you give some ideas on what to add on the the homepage for better presentation /entry point of the Open Cities (Africa) project?

Maybe with a format similar to http://uganda.ithacaweb.org/index.html ?

vdeparday commented 5 years ago

@Cristiano Giovando giovand@gmail.com we had already provided some content to Ithaca who did some selections but then we removed for simplicity but it would be nice to revisit. Do they have that content somewhere so that we can tweak it and update it ?

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Maybe with a format similar to http://uganda.ithacaweb.org/index.html ?

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cgiovando commented 5 years ago

@ppasq can you easily restore the content we had in the first version?

ppasq commented 5 years ago

The initial home page has been restored.

cgiovando commented 5 years ago

Some more feedback from Grace:

The header’s subtext needs to be reworded. (“Making urban planning data better by making it more open”). It’s a bit stilted. Other options:

My preferred:

Open urban planning data for a better Africa

Other ideas: (anyone else have input?)

Opening urban planning data for a better Africa

Better urban planning data for an open Africa

Improving urban planning through open data

I’m concerned that we don’t have any of our brand elements in the opening page. The green map background doesn’t show up until you scroll down, and the font is not the same as what we use in our OpenDRI and Open Cities PPTs and printed materials. Is the website font what we’re supposed to be using for Open Cities? We need to be consistent, whichever of the two we use.

Under Participating Cities, I agree the city names should be a different color to signify that they are link-enabled. I wouldn’t have known I could click on them if Nuala hadn’t said something.

Under Become an Open City, add “and”: “determine government stakeholders, and determine local stakeholders.”