[Bf-webcontent] Bf-webcontent Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

Mon Jul 15 17:30:29 CEST 2013

Should there be comments on content yet? Or is everything just
placeholder. I saw a few small typos that would need to be addressed.

Also, is there going to be a section for "Professional Works"? What I mean
by this is a section that lives on the site that Professionals (or at
least professional quality work) can be displayed and organized with the
permission of the authors. Whenever I tell someone about Blender they
always ask "who uses this"? or "what are some professional pieces made in
blender?" - which always ends with a disorganized google/vimeo/youtube
search of specific works I can think of off the top of my head. It would
be great for these inquiring minds to be able to simply click on a section
on the site and see reels, demos, and projects that are undeniably
visually stunning and substantiate what CAN be accomplished in the
application (as in stunning examples of finished work) verses what can be
done in the program (ie. sculpt, model, etc. - very utilitarian
representation of product features). The previous site had a little bit of
this (reels, and such), but barely scratched the surface in terms of what
my eyes have feasted on throughout the community. I think that type of
content does a great job at getting users to click the big "download now"
anchor.

Those are my thoughts. The whole site looks like it is coming together
well though, good job gang.

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>    1. Status report (Francesco Siddi)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:45:15 -0400
> From: Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bf-webcontent] Status report
> To: "Blender3d.org web editors maillist" <bf-webcontent at blender.org>
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> Hello everyone.
>
> A staging version of the website is now live on staging.blender.org,
> feel free to check it out and provide feedback (we are aware of most
> of the glitches, responsiveness, broken banners, broken links, broken
> layouts, etc.).
>
>
> What we have:
>
> - the general content mapping plan
> (http://www.blender.org/bf/website_navigation.pdf )
> - a nice page template building/configuration system
> - download page is working
> - home page is working
> - most of the other top level pages have a layout
>
>
> What we need:
>
> - a more effective way to handle the actual markup for a page in the
> TinyMCE (at the moment the system works better in code/text view) -
> Valery Tkachenko started working on this
> - icons (Anderson Mancini started helping out, he will share some of
> his work soon)
> - artwork (will write a separate email about this)
> - page migration support. I got in touch with a few people already and
> gave them access to the website, but not much has happened yet. If you
> want to help out and you did not get access to the website please
> write again, mentioning the area you would like to work on and you'll
> get an account immediately
>
>
> What we don't need:
>
> - a long discussion about redesigning the whole website, start a
> separate thread eventually :)
>
>
> If enough people step up during the week we can bring the website a
> big step forward and preview it at SIGGRAPH, which would be great!
>
>
> Francesco
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:43:54 +0200
> From: Tomasz Kania <tomasz at 27gram.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Status report
> To: bf-webcontent at blender.org
> Message-ID: <51E2F16A.3020805 at 27gram.com>
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> On 07/14/2013 05:45 PM, Francesco Siddi wrote:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> A staging version of the website is now live on staging.blender.org,
>> feel free to check it out and provide feedback (we are aware of most
>> of the glitches, responsiveness, broken banners, broken links, broken
>> layouts, etc.).
>
> Hi :)
> First i tested staging.blender.org on my Nexus 4.
> And responsive menu don't work (i click on menu link and this link only
> animate click,
> nothing happenned). Second test was on my Chrome browser (still the same
> bug with menu).
> And i saw bug with top graphics and texts (width 480 and under).
>
> Another glitch is 404 for this image:
> http://staging.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/conference.jpg
> And maybe more images.
>
> But finally this design is very eyecatchy:)
> So i'm proud of you, this site will be great!
>>
>>
>> What we have:
>>
>> - the general content mapping plan
>> (http://www.blender.org/bf/website_navigation.pdf )
>> - a nice page template building/configuration system
>> - download page is working
>> - home page is working
>> - most of the other top level pages have a layout
>>
>>
>> What we need:
>>
>> - a more effective way to handle the actual markup for a page in the
>> TinyMCE (at the moment the system works better in code/text view) -
>> Valery Tkachenko started working on this
> I think TinyMCE can take custom CSS to creating nice markup :)
>
>> - icons (Anderson Mancini started helping out, he will share some of
>> his work soon)
>> - artwork (will write a separate email about this)
>> - page migration support. I got in touch with a few people already and
>> gave them access to the website, but not much has happened yet. If you
>> want to help out and you did not get access to the website please
>> write again, mentioning the area you would like to work on and you'll
>> get an account immediately
>>
>>
>> What we don't need:
>>
>> - a long discussion about redesigning the whole website, start a
>> separate thread eventually :)
>>
>>
>> If enough people step up during the week we can bring the website a
>> big step forward and preview it at SIGGRAPH, which would be great!
>>
>>
>> Francesco
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bf-webcontent mailing list
>> Bf-webcontent at blender.org
>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-webcontent
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Kania - 27gram.com
> mobile: +48783559713
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:47:56 +0200
> From: Tomasz Kania <tomasz at 27gram.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Status report
> To: bf-webcontent at blender.org
> Message-ID: <51E2F25C.4070507 at 27gram.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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> On 07/14/2013 08:43 PM, Tomasz Kania wrote:
>> On 07/14/2013 05:45 PM, Francesco Siddi wrote:
>>> Hello everyone.
>>>
>>> A staging version of the website is now live on staging.blender.org,
>>> feel free to check it out and provide feedback (we are aware of most
>>> of the glitches, responsiveness, broken banners, broken links, broken
>>> layouts, etc.).
>> Hi :)
>> First i tested staging.blender.org on my Nexus 4.
>> And responsive menu don't work (i click on menu link and this link only
>> animate click,
>> nothing happenned). Second test was on my Chrome browser (still the same
>> bug with menu).
>> And i saw bug with top graphics and texts (width 480 and under).
> Oh. I forgot about glitch with footer on
> http://staging.blender.org/get-involved/
> I think idea footer must be fluid on whole website (now) it's only
> 1176px width without gray left and right space.
> My browser is Chrome from Google ( 26.0.1410.63)
>
>> Another glitch is 404 for this image:
>> http://staging.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/conference.jpg
>> And maybe more images.
>>
>> But finally this design is very eyecatchy:)
>> So i'm proud of you, this site will be great!
>>>
>>> What we have:
>>>
>>> - the general content mapping plan
>>> (http://www.blender.org/bf/website_navigation.pdf )
>>> - a nice page template building/configuration system
>>> - download page is working
>>> - home page is working
>>> - most of the other top level pages have a layout
>>>
>>>
>>> What we need:
>>>
>>> - a more effective way to handle the actual markup for a page in the
>>> TinyMCE (at the moment the system works better in code/text view) -
>>> Valery Tkachenko started working on this
>> I think TinyMCE can take custom CSS to creating nice markup :)
>>
>>> - icons (Anderson Mancini started helping out, he will share some of
>>> his work soon)
>>> - artwork (will write a separate email about this)
>>> - page migration support. I got in touch with a few people already and
>>> gave them access to the website, but not much has happened yet. If you
>>> want to help out and you did not get access to the website please
>>> write again, mentioning the area you would like to work on and you'll
>>> get an account immediately
>>>
>>>
>>> What we don't need:
>>>
>>> - a long discussion about redesigning the whole website, start a
>>> separate thread eventually :)
>>>
>>>
>>> If enough people step up during the week we can bring the website a
>>> big step forward and preview it at SIGGRAPH, which would be great!
>>>
>>>
>>> Francesco
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Bf-webcontent mailing list
>>> Bf-webcontent at blender.org
>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-webcontent
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Kania - 27gram.com
> mobile: +48783559713
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> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:44:22 -0300
> From: Anderson Mancini <anderson at neotix.com.br>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Status report
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> Hi everyone. I'll post some icons we discussed for done sessions of
> website. Some of them have 2 options so we can decide together what's the
> best.
>
> I'll wait the content evolution to make the final icon design.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anderson Mancini
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> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:17:09 +0200
> From: Sparkwood and 21 <info at sparkwoodand21.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Status report
> To: "Blender3d.org web editors maillist" <bf-webcontent at blender.org>
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> Hi Francesco,
>
> It's great. I like it. Here are my thoughts:
>
> *Relevant Call to Action* on each main page? i.e. at the bottom of
> features
> provide a link to download. At the bottom of support, a link to
> stackexchange(?), etc...
>
> *Donate*. How do I do that then? You have probably thought about this
> already, but you can go two ways: advertise products available in the
> store
> on the front page and do A/B testing to see which are most appropriate, or
> have a support us link somewhere that leads to a donation page. I guess
> the
> former comes across as "less needy" and would probably be better.
>
> *Search*. I reckon it'll be difficult to have a search facility that
> covers
> the network, the wiki, the devblog etc, but that'll be useful for me if I
> want to find something and have no idea where to look.
>
> *Suzanne*. Where is she? She's a mascot and such a mascot needs to have
> their own special easter egg hidden away on the site somewhere.
>
> *Concerning Markup*: did you ever thing about creating shortcodes? so you
> can slap in [one-third] [/one-third] for example to help with layout and
> [icon-blender] for markup?
>
> Finally, it's not *responsive *on my iPad.
>
> Once the site goes live, are you going to have a link for site feedback or
> be analysing page statistics and adjusting the site based on say, 6 months
> of feedback?
>
> Think that's it for now. I like the direction it's going in. I feel like I
> can send this website to my non-technical artist friends and they won't
> freak out.
>
> Also, happy to help with page migration.
>
> Cheers,
> Duncan
> *Sparkwood and 21**
> *
> Small Design Studio*
> *
> *sparkwoodand21.com | info at sparkwoodand21.com**
> *
>
>
> On 14 July 2013 17:45, Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> A staging version of the website is now live on staging.blender.org,
>> feel free to check it out and provide feedback (we are aware of most
>> of the glitches, responsiveness, broken banners, broken links, broken
>> layouts, etc.).
>>
>>
>> What we have:
>>
>> - the general content mapping plan
>> (http://www.blender.org/bf/website_navigation.pdf )
>> - a nice page template building/configuration system
>> - download page is working
>> - home page is working
>> - most of the other top level pages have a layout
>>
>>
>> What we need:
>>
>> - a more effective way to handle the actual markup for a page in the
>> TinyMCE (at the moment the system works better in code/text view) -
>> Valery Tkachenko started working on this
>> - icons (Anderson Mancini started helping out, he will share some of
>> his work soon)
>> - artwork (will write a separate email about this)
>> - page migration support. I got in touch with a few people already and
>> gave them access to the website, but not much has happened yet. If you
>> want to help out and you did not get access to the website please
>> write again, mentioning the area you would like to work on and you'll
>> get an account immediately
>>
>>
>> What we don't need:
>>
>> - a long discussion about redesigning the whole website, start a
>> separate thread eventually :)
>>
>>
>> If enough people step up during the week we can bring the website a
>> big step forward and preview it at SIGGRAPH, which would be great!
>>
>>
>> Francesco
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bf-webcontent mailing list
>> Bf-webcontent at blender.org
>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-webcontent
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