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We don't have "design" yet, but...
#1

Thank you for all the design suggestions!

We have received a number of proposed strategies, page mockups, and CSS templates, both on this forum and in emails to me directly Smile Two members have even provided functional sites with much better styling than the current one - one pure HTML and one a CodeIgniter webapp.

You will see some results from these, shortly. A revamped website incorporating a number of the suggestions will soon appear, and I hope the suggestions for improving it continue.

Additionally, we are adding a new Github repository with the CodeIgniter artwork, stylesheets and themes. David & Lonnie, from the council, have agreed to oversee this. We see this as part of establishing a revitalized CodeIgniter "identity".

It is apparent that the CodeIgniter community does not like "bad design" ... is the topic of design and identity important enough to warrant a separate forum in the "General" category? I don't want to take away from working towards Version 3, but it could be useful to have a place to organize the questions, suggestions and critiques. What do you think?
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#2

It will be good to have such "CodeIgniter Website" category.
Inside it there can be multiple different threads regarding design / functionalities / subapps of the website (forum, documentation, etc..).

+ Perhaps it will be good and to have a new Logo - close to the old one but with the "Spark of the Future"
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(This post was last modified: 11-02-2014, 03:00 PM by bclinton.)

(10-30-2014, 11:39 PM)jlp Wrote: We have received a number of proposed strategies, page mockups, and CSS templates, both on this forum and in emails to me directly Smile Two members have even provided functional sites with much better styling than the current one - one pure HTML and one a CodeIgniter webapp.

This can't be done soon enough. I'd suggest putting it at the top of the list to be completed before any other work on CodeIgniter.

I was pretty excited to hear that CodeIgniter had a new home. But then when I went to the website my heart dropped. It was like hearing an old friend has a new place nearby, but then when you drop by to visit him you find he's living in an abandoned railway car in the overgrown lot behind the 7/11.

Hyperbole? Yes. But current and prospective new users of Codeigniter are going to be using that website for their first impressions of the next chapter of CodeIgniter and that site makes a very poor impression. It's unprofessional. It makes CodeIgniter look like a dying framework gasping for its last breaths, with a community so small it can't find even one decent developer with artistic ability among its members to whip up a quick website template.

I'd also recommend that you change the theme of this forum to something that doesn't scream "default BB installation". This is something that should take 10-15 minutes and would be worth far more than the time invested. There are pages of them here: http://mods.mybb.com/themes

How about this grey theme from the first page? http://mods.mybb.com/view/the-gray Very sharp, modern, neutral colors...

(10-30-2014, 11:39 PM)jlp Wrote: It is apparent that the CodeIgniter community does not like "bad design" ... is the topic of design and identity important enough to warrant a separate forum in the "General" category? I don't want to take away from working towards Version 3, but it could be useful to have a place to organize the questions, suggestions and critiques. What do you think?

Imagine that! A community of web developers renouncing bad design Wink

This isn't something that should take away from Version 3. It's something that should be done, now, and then its done. If you have acceptable designs already, put them up and then you can forget about it.

If, in the future, you feel you need to make a break with EllisLabs' logo and style, then the best time for that would be the release of CodeIgniter 3. You could have it ready and debut a new look on the day of the release. For now, it's a transition, and keeping things the same stylistically will ease that transition.

If you need assistance in any of this, just send me a private message and I'd be happy to help.
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(11-02-2014, 10:30 AM)bclinton Wrote: I'd also recommend that you change the theme of this forum to something that doesn't scream "default BB installation". This is something that should take 10-15 minutes and would be worth far more than the time invested. There are pages of them here: http://mods.mybb.com/themes
I totally agree with you. The leaders should choose x themes and put to a vote, for one week. This way this forum would have a great themes in short time.
#5

(10-30-2014, 11:39 PM)jlp Wrote: Additionally, we are adding a new Github repository with the CodeIgniter artwork, stylesheets and themes. David & Lonnie, from the council, have agreed to oversee this. We see this as part of establishing a revitalized CodeIgniter "identity".

Hi, do you have a plan to put http://www.codeigniter.com/ website as a repository in GitHub as well (like Zend does with http://framework.zend.com/ and https://github.com/zendframework/zf-web)?




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