ThreeSixtyGiving / Old-Dkan

Archive: DKAN files that used to run the 360Giving registry. See the registry repo for new code https://github.com/ThreeSixtyGiving/registry
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Improve homepage #9

Open pmackay opened 9 years ago

pmackay commented 9 years ago

Currently I've tried one of the banner options quickly to experiment. But it isnt the best image as it has many sharp lines, so makes text hard to read. Something more blurry might be better. Any suggestions welcome!

I'm wondering also what the most important parts of the homepage should be:

Comments @practicalparticipation @stevieflow ?

practicalparticipation commented 9 years ago

We could either choose an image with more of a blur, or add some opacity and styling to the box the text is in - as the DKAN demo does (e.g. background-color: rgba(10,119,189,0.5) )

A box of summary statistics would be good if easy to include, perhaps in right-hand-column.

I think the help text idea from #7 should come on pages other than front page (e.g. as panel at top of screen when viewing groups or datasets and only when logged in)

Here's a possible sketch of content for the two boxes on the front page, cutting down the text displayed about 360 Giving - and linking off to www.threesixtygiving.org and docs.threesixtygiving.org to provide extra info.

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I would then stick with the list of recent publishers under the banner area on the front page for now, with option to do different things with that space in future.

What do you think? If we got this in place, we could then run this all past the communications group for any further tweaks...

pmackay commented 9 years ago

What about using a different background image of something like a compass, e.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/5374308475/in/photolist-9bUJEX-bJ4zmt-i4RtVS-6UN6F7-q4ZB3R-bJ4BCr-yNxSS-byZLrW-8UzNQp-8UCVgE-8tgzcg-kMQmbh-5p1Eii-owP5sa-aBjovP-4MHBKz-bk8Dvn-mWFZja-6ekWzX-naqjZK-4PMf29-8tjzfs-byZJF3-8hZoRK-gHrKY-8UCUmQ-kFbvi-4YXCpV-oFTLNk-oFaDv-bMUqjB-byZKsA-fDYxQx-fEg74A-7TkNjq-bMUrvV-ncttKK-nct694-naqwhA-naqtfC-naqrQE-naqpLJ-naqnsk-9pcbAN-aDFzKq-xkiHg-8ce7HZ-kMNQw8-kMQumW-MhyKY

pmackay commented 9 years ago

Or any others from https://www.flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv&q=compass ?

practicalparticipation commented 9 years ago

Good idea - lets test it out.

The one you suggested looks good aspect ratio wise. I also quite like https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruceberrien/4262228892/in/photolist-7uD3a3-7LcWs7-5p1Eii-owP5sa-a5Rt3B-aBjovP-4MHBKz-bk8Dvn-mWFZja-6ekWzX-naqjZK-2uRoUh-4PMf29-8tjzfs-byZJF3-8hZoRK-gHrKY-8UCUmQ-kFbvi-9bUJEX-bJ4zmt-4YXCpV-oFTLNk-oFaDv-bMUqjB-byZKsA-fDYxQx-fEg74A-7TkNjq-bMUrvV-i4RtVS-6UN6F7-q4ZB3R-bJ4BCr-ncttKK-nct694-naqwhA-naqtfC-naqrQE-naqpLJ-naqnsk-9pcbAN-yNxSS-byZLrW-8UzNQp-8UCVgE-aDFzKq-xkiHg-8tgzcg-kMQmbh

pmackay commented 9 years ago

OK thought that looked a lot better so just updated. http://data.threesixtygiving.org/ Yours was a bit small to be a banner so didnt try that one.

practicalparticipation commented 9 years ago

Looks good :)