Re: [CsMain] Website Theme Mockup

This is beautiful!!!

2010/2/17 Denis Washington <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> It was mentioned several times on this list that the website may need a
> fresher look, and therefore I played around with Inkscape the last few days
> to mock something up. I'd  now like to present the results of this.
>
> Two screenshots are attached; the first shows how I imagined the homepage
> to look. It should shows screenshots of works done with CrystalSpace (O took
> some I found on the current site, but these should maybe be cooler looking
> new demo screenshots) and tries to make clear what CrystalSpace is with as
> little text as possible. (The exact text is only a suggestion, it can be
> anything we come up with.) It also includes news.
>
> The second screenshot shows how "normal" pages on the site would look. I
> took the Documentation page as a sample. Please note that this is all only
> example content.
>
> When looking at those screenshots, you probably will have noticed that I
> didn't use the current official CrystalSpace logo, but a simplified,
> monochrome-blue version. In combination with the site design, I also would
> like to propose this new logo; I find it's clearness appealing, and think
> such a logo design would feel more professional than the current one. As can
> be seen, I also designed very similar logos for CEL and CELstart. (The
> current three icons have very different styles and don't have much of a
> stylistic coherence, IMO.)
>
> There is also another, more subtle change that the mockups suggest: a small
> change in how the term "CrystalSpace" is used. Currently, "CrystalSpace" and
> "CrystalSpace 3D" are interchangable in that they both mean the 3D engine. I
> propose to use "CrystalSpace 3D" for the engine instead, making
> "CrystalSpace" the name of the complete platform - that is, CrystalSpace 3D
> + CEL + CELstart. Thus, everyone working on one of these projects (or any
> other project that might be developed under the CrystalSpace umbrella in the
> future) would be part of the broader "CrystalSpace community". Admittedly
> this is a purely cosmetic change, but one that, in my opinion, would signal
> a greater belonging of CEL(start) to the CrystalSpace project.
>
> I would be excited to hear your thoughts and comments about all this.
>
> Regards,
> Denis
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