Linux Information Website Redesign : Help the community

[TurboGraffix]

I hope this is okay to post this here, so mods take away if it is inappropriate.

I'm currently finishing up Grad School for Computer Science, and as a project for a "User Interface Design" course, I am to come up with a redesign for Linux.org's website. Appearently they posted the challenge for people to submit ideas 6 months ago, and either no one has submitted a new look, or they have not adopted any of the submissions. http://www.linux.org/about/design.html

So I'm faced with the task of analyzing the current site, and I am in the gathering requirements stage.

The problem is, their website doesn't seem to have any community, so I'm attempting to get some feedback from users from various users.

The design itself should be fairly easy, it's just trying to reach out to a community that doesn't exist. Hopefully some of my ideas will help them out...at least with a domain name like they own.

If you would like to help a student out with some feedback, I've set up a painless survey via zoomerang. http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/s...WEB226F6ZKWRYF

I have my own ideas of how the site should be redone...I've got the technical requirements under control, but would love to know what attracts a strong community like LF.

First post. Hopefuly I'll hang around. Ohh and I have 4/8 of my machines running various distros, (Slackware 8, Redhat 7.5, Mandrake 10, and am giving Ubantu a try)...All web/mail servers. I have a Mac, 2 Win Machines, and an old Spark running X Windows.

If anyone has a couple of minutes, I'd be their buddy for life.

Thank You, You seem to have great people here.

TG

[Redman]

I hope this is okay to post this here, so mods take away if it is inappropriate.

I don't think your post here will pose a problem based on the fact that you are asking for opinions, rather than people helping creating a new look (a so called "home-work-question")

[tommytabib]

well i took it, though i dont go to linux.org much. these forums are my site for linux help.

And please if you make a design a) get rid of the color red altogether and b) re-draw there penguin icon.

[TurboGraffix]

well i took it, though i dont go to linux.org much. these forums are my site for linux help.

And please if you make a design a) get rid of the color red altogether and b) re-draw there penguin icon.

Thanks Guys!

FYI I, nor my school is associated with Linux.org. It is just a project to demonstrate what we've learned about extracting requirements then developing a User Interface which is appropriate for the end user. I will probably not even submit my design, as I'm not sure if they care how their site looks

I think the Professor picked the site because of they were looking for a redesign at one point. Whether they have given up is a mystery since I have not received any responses from the contact people listed.

I thank you for posting here, as If I were in charge of that site, I would attempt at building the type of community that has grown here over the years. I have found my questions have already been answered, which has saved me a lot of frustration...I relied on usenet when I first started out with Linux, but now, would come here first. I tell people to come here for the answers.

Thanks Again. Great site and community here.

[daacosta]

Done with the survey. Good luck with revamping the website...