[Zope3-dev] Icon/Graphic Design for Zope 3

[Rob Foster]

To Kapil:
Thanks for the screenshot, I hadn't seen that before.

To Kit:
Please send me whatever you've got in Illustrator, I'm sure it will  
help.

To Everyone:
1. What is the bar that sits under the logo? What does it do (I've  
never seen it before)?
2. What's the easiest way to get z3 installed on Mac OS X (I'm not a  
Unix expert by any means, so any help would be appreciated)?

Thanks for all the comments, etc. I agree with Jean Jordaan... I think  
the current look and feel (while pretty) might be a little bloated. It  
would be great to roll some of it into css so it can be more modular.  
I'll work a little on that and see what happens. I like Plone, but I  
think it's a little too flat... It would be nice to marry the two  
somehow.

<soapbox>
I think if the look and feel and UI tastyness/ease of use get a nice  
upgrade, it could really help the adoption rate of Zope for  
non-techies. Two good case studies for this are the weblog applications  
Movable Type and Blogger.
</soapbox>

Rob



On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 12:55  PM, kapil thangavelu wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:50 pm, Rob Foster wrote:
>> Allow me to appeal to the right side of your brain for a moment...
>
> when i consider that emacs is the ideal ui, i wonder if that side has  
> died ;-)
>
>> I am a graphic designer with a passion for excellent icon design. I
>> would really like to get involved with the design efforts for Zope 3.  
>> I
>> have pretty good experience with Zope for a graphic guy and I'd like  
>> to
>> offer my design services.
>>
>> I've got eight years of web design experience under my belt.
>> I can create metaphorically sound icons that look great.
>> I can css my way out of several paper bags.
>>
>> So how do I go about it?
>
> i'd recommend installing zope3 and looking at the zope top interface.
>
> speaking of which is there a z3 install doc somewhere?
>
> a quick preview of the design on which its based.
>
> http://cvs.zope.org/Packages/MoZTop/laguna/ 
> laguna_xp.gif?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> -k
>