[iRail] new betrains look&feel

Tue Dec 21 09:22:56 UTC 2010

Hi list

it's especially Julien who did a nice job (I just uploaded the files you 
know :))

The website is of course important to communicate about the project, 
everyboy should be happy with it.
It's important to define

    * the functionnalities of the site
    * who does what
    * how we'll make the decisions about it

Julien made a layout of the site, everybody saw it some time ago. I was 
asked to upload it, and now suddenly everybody has feedback :)
I'm not worried, I always get this in the web agency I work for :)

So I think we should begin to define the functionalities of the site 
before having Julien make any more changes.

    * structure
          o home
                + android detail page
                + iPhone detail page
                + maemo detail page
                + samsung detail page
                + windows phone detail page
                + playbook detail page
                + ... something else ?
    * functionalities :
          o Pieter for example you hate the feedback button, I actually
            think it's the main feature of the site, as this gives the
            opportunity for the users to pass some ideas about how to
            improve the project. What do the other think about that ?
          o lightweigh site : excellent idea Pieter
          o home : how many phones do you want to show ? Personnaly I
            like the idea of showing immediately a lot of phones, but
            I'm afraid that with new phones coming in the future if will
            be difficult to show them all at once. If there's any Jquery
            ninja coder amongst us, he could find a super neat
            coverflow-thingy-plugin to use ?
    * hosting : betrains.com is hosted on my little hosting here. I
      don't mind giving access to it to the person who wants to be in
      charge of the site integration/maintenance (For the record, I
      don't specially want to do this, I already have a lot of work :))
    * updates : why wouldn't we use a wordpress system so everybody
      could change the content of their pages ?
          o wouldn't it be easier to update content instead of using the
            github ? (I still can't use it... and i think I'm not the
            only one)
          o there are some mobile templates so the site automatically
            switches when you visit it from a mobile (duh!)
          o has somebody some experience using/tweaking a wordpress
            template ?

merry Christmas ! :)
Louis

Le 19/12/10 10:58, Pieter Colpaert a écrit :
> Verrrry nice work Julien and Louis!
>
> As always I have some comments ;-)
>
>   * I like one phone on the page instead of multiple (sorry Christophe),
> but I think the each 3 seconds the phone on the page should change.
>
>   * People that will access the site are going to install the application
> on a mobile phone. But... It's very heavy to load, even on my n900... Is
> there a possibility to create a smartphone site as well?
>
>   * You've forgot BeTrains for BlackBerry Playbook ;-) (and as Tim said
> the symbian)
>
>   * I hate the feedback button. Do we really need a feedback button for a
> site that advertises our clients? I think this website should be as
> light weight as possible.
>
>   * Yes. I know. I've asked this before and you hate me for asking. But:
> I want this on a github page which updates to betrains.com. This way
> anyone can do little changes, or add their website theirselves, without
> having to mail 10 times before it gets changed
>
>
> Thanks, and as I've said, awesome work!
>
> Pieter
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 10:32 +0100, Tim Besard wrote:
>>> I would like to know if instead of putting one type of phone forward, we could just create an overview of all platforms available?
>>> I made a quick photoshop draft and I believe your skills are really better than mine, but here is a preview of what I would like to see:
>>>
>>> I think that's more impressive for the user to have an overview of the whole work we did.
>>> That would be also awesome for the media.
>> I must say I quite like the current design, only showing a single
>> interface at a time. Makes the page a bit less heavy.
>>
>>
>>> I do think that having that app icon for Windows phone on a separate line feels a little bit unprofessional. It's like we couldn't
>>> put everything on the same line. Also, if you hover over the iPhone icon, you can see that the (silver) apple icon wasn't cut
>>> out precisely enough.
>> I agree. But if we add another platform (say, Symbian) we could line
>> it out in two rows of 3 again.
>>
>>
>> Also, the Maemo application will be landscape only (as the larger part
>> of the OS is as well), so the phone will need to be turned.
>>
>> Nice work though!
>>
>> Tim
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