[iRail] new betrains look&feel

Tue Dec 21 09:30:49 UTC 2010

+1 for wordpress here.

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Louis de Decker
<louisdedecker at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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
>       - home
>          - android detail page
>          - iPhone detail page
>          - maemo detail page
>          - samsung detail page
>          - windows phone detail page
>          - playbook detail page
>          - ... something else ?
>            - functionalities :
>       - 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 ?
>       - lightweigh site : excellent idea Pieter
>       - 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 ?
>       - 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)
>       - there are some mobile templates so the site automatically switches
>       when you visit it from a mobile (duh!)
>       - 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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