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Mock up new BRL-CAD website interface design (#5)BRL-CAD
Status: ClosedTime to complete:
72 hrs
Mentors: Sean
BRL-CAD's main website needs a facelift. Design a new website interface mock-up. Emphasize the look and feel of the site with a carefully thought out layout and graphical appeal.
You're welcome to create your own concept artwork, put boxes saying "logo goes here", or use our new logos:
- http://brlcad.org/d/node/92
- http://brlcad.org/images/logo (just don't use the old eagle logo)
You can submit an image, photoshop files, working html files, or even a pen and paper sketch (but it better be impressive and complete).
If we like your design, a follow-up task may be posted to turn your design into a proper drupal and/or mediawiki theme (so you may want to demo the design in CSS anyways).
Here are some examples of other open source project websites that are relevant:
- http://qt.digia.com/
- http://mil-oss.org/
- http://www.blender.org/
- http://qt-project.org/
- http://www.mozilla.org/
- http://drupal.org/
You may want to look at what some other students have already submitted as there are multiple website design tasks.
Uploaded Work
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| design.zip | 2.2 MB | December 25 2012 10:19 UTC | |
| homepage.png | 711.2 KB | December 27 2012 09:59 UTC | |
| downloads.png | 693.9 KB | December 27 2012 10:04 UTC | |
| downloads.png | 693.9 KB | December 27 2012 10:04 UTC | |
| about.png | 791.0 KB | December 27 2012 10:05 UTC | |
| downloads.xcf | 2.3 MB | December 27 2012 10:06 UTC | |
| homepage.xcf | 2.5 MB | December 27 2012 10:07 UTC | |
| about.xcf | 1.9 MB | December 27 2012 10:08 UTC |
I would like to work on this task.
This task has been assigned to amitoj singh. You have 72 hours to complete this task, good luck!
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Amitoj,
From the files you uploaded, I looks like you put considerable efforts but your concept lacks professional look and feel. Just writing page titles and putting some images will not be enough. Choose colors and fonts carefully, take care of font size and manage space wisely. Add some text to the images from website to make them more appealing.
Don't mess up the homepage with too much text. Shadows, rounded corners, fancy and modern buttons and proper color combniation and color contrast are few other suggestions.
All above suggestions are extracted from examples links in task description. Just have a look at them.
Best of luck...
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Cant we just put up a demo wordpress site-- To show how we think that your site should look and feel cause the new Wp interface offers a lot of flexibility and stuff to change ---
The site design can be mocked up in pretty much anything that we can preview. Using WP is acceptable BUT you can't just put our content into WP, turn a few modules on and off, set some colors, and call it done. For any of the design mock up tasks, any submitted design would need to not look like any of the known WP themes. With that said, i'd think using a content management system directly to mock up the design would be counterproductive (MUCH more work than sketching a design on paper or in image editing software).
Amitoj, your design still lacks a usable professional appeal, but I think you've now put in reasonable effort on this task to call it complete. You fulfilled the submission criteria and responded to our critique, so thank you for your efforts. Your design does indicate several "simplicity" features that are worth considering.
Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.
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