Hey, I thought it’s important to look at the website’s page structure and menus before jumping into visual design. I did first a rough map of the desktop view, then made a first suggestion below on how to make the homepage and the top nav easier to navigate and to move some stray elements to a more logical place.
Current website
Home:
- Top menu (expanded below)
- header img (not much info, takes up a lot of space)
- 3-column intro
- 3-column layout: Articles, Events, Community Calendar, Jobs&Projects
- Supporters (weak button: Become a Sponsor)
- Contributors&Backers
- Conferences
- Affiliates
- Contact us (socials), code of conduct
Top menu:
- Goals
- Articles
- Resources
- Jobs (& Projects)
- Events
- Forum (Discourse)
- Summit
- Milestones
Other pages:
- GitHub?
- Manifesto (Could this merge with goals?)
- Community Calendar
Footer:
nothing
Suggestions
Home:
Some general ideas and small improvements
- Top menu (expanded below)
- Remove filler header image, move first paragraph front and center
- 2nd and 3rd paragraph are their own sections with more weight, maybe add photos of OSDN at conferences, etc.?
- Events, Calendar, Jobs: time-sensitive and engaging, sidebar maybe? design exploration needed
- Articles: static, can come later
- Section to support in multiple ways
** Supporters: button should be a clear CTA
** Contributors&Backers: add a CTA - Conferences
- Affiliates
- Contact us (socials): remove Code of Conduct from here
Top menu:
- About Us
** Goals
** Manifesto (or Goals & Manifesto)
** Milestones
** Summit (is this page still relevant? do we keep it?) - Community
** Events
** Forum
** Jobs
** Code of Conduct - Resources
** Articles
** External resources
Footer
Create one to give an overview of the page map, and possibly link to pages we’re not quite ready to delete, but it’s outdated/clutter
My POV was to arrange existing content better before writing new content or pages. If there’s capacity to do that, even better.
Feel free to ask questions, and let me know what you think!