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Hi. I am the designer of the website. The logo of my portfolio at the top may have been a bit bold, but its temporary. I had asked for it, to get some addition

Hi. I am the designer of the website. The logo of my portfolio at the top may have been a bit bold, but its temporary. I had asked for it, to get some additional exposure during the initial few weeks, when people would be curious about the new design. I tried my best to make the logo blend into the design. About the logo inconsistency. It's my fault. hanks a lot for pointing that out, I'll fix it. As far as tweaking in production goes, its usually better to launch and iterate, than to sit and try to make it perfect before launch. The current version works well enough for most people to use it, and I'm sure that not many people really care if the logos or design on all pages aren't consistent (I'm not saying that its not important, just that its not critical enough to hold off on launching). As far as being professional with the website is concerned. I only did the designs for a couple of pages in Photoshop. The folks at VideoLAN had to code it up themselves and also adapt the designs I gave to fit all other pages. That takes a lot of time and effort. Although I don't speak for VideoLAN, I am sure that they would rather focus on their software than the website. That being said, I agree that they should work on making their website, and everything else about VideoLAN from start to finish, perfect, but it can only happen if more people volunteer. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if they had more designers and developers offering to polish up their brand.

theflubba 16y ago
Word.
jedsmith 16y ago
> As far as tweaking in production goes, its usually better to launch and iterate, than to sit and try to make it perfect before launch. So tweak on a staging site is my point (and has been all along). If I refresh the page and suddenly the bottom footer is no longer in the center but flush left (with dead white filling the right), that looks sloppy. I'm not saying hold up the launch, I'm saying try your changes on a non-visible site. To reiterate what I mean here: you should not be running vim on the box hosting www.videolan.org. I watched you do it earlier today. Commit those changes as a unit, then pull them over to production. Half-baked edits to production should never happen on a public-facing site, especially with $20/mo VPS providers that can spin you up a server in minutes.
- jbk 16y ago
  > To reiterate what I mean here: you should not be running vim on the box hosting www.videolan.org. I watched you do it earlier today. Very unlikely. The Website is open source, and the www.v.o pulls the svn every few minutes and recompiles it. You'll see the website change quite a lot in the next days, because of that... But the main thing is that you don't like the way we see the website, ever-evolving and not 100%-tested before. I agree, but we don't have the teams to do that.

theflubba 16y ago

Word.

jedsmith 16y ago

> As far as tweaking in production goes, its usually better to launch and iterate, than to sit and try to make it perfect before launch. So tweak on a staging site is my point (and has been all along). If I refresh the page and suddenly the bottom footer is no longer in the center but flush left (with dead white filling the right), that looks sloppy. I'm not saying hold up the launch, I'm saying try your changes on a non-visible site. To reiterate what I mean here: you should not be running vim on the box hosting www.videolan.org. I watched you do it earlier today. Commit those changes as a unit, then pull them over to production. Half-baked edits to production should never happen on a public-facing site, especially with $20/mo VPS providers that can spin you up a server in minutes.

jbk 16y ago
> To reiterate what I mean here: you should not be running vim on the box hosting www.videolan.org. I watched you do it earlier today. Very unlikely. The Website is open source, and the www.v.o pulls the svn every few minutes and recompiles it. You'll see the website change quite a lot in the next days, because of that... But the main thing is that you don't like the way we see the website, ever-evolving and not 100%-tested before. I agree, but we don't have the teams to do that.