From: Michel Martens <blaumag@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T23:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team

Definitely onboard, as Raymond Babbitt (aka Rain Man) would put it. I
have been designing websites for the last 8 years, though most of them
have already phased out. Here is a small sample:

http://www.soveran.org (personal weblog)
http://www.soveran.com (my evil capitalist face)
https://visitorzone.ejkreed.com (my latest work for Cisco Systems Argentina)


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:39:49 +0900, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
> John W. Long wrote:
> 
> > Recently I've seen a couple of people mention how much they would like
> > to see a new look on the main Ruby Web site. I can't help but agree.
> > I've been wishing the same thing for a bunch of the main Ruby Web sites
> > for months now.
> >
> > Here is what I would like to propose. Let's form a Ruby Visual Identity
> > Team, similar to the one formed for the launch of Mozilla Firefox
> > [1][2]. Our first project: to redesign ruby-lang.org. After that we
> > could offer our services for other projects. The Ruby documentation site
> > for instance [3]. Perhaps even get around to implementing a couple of
> > nice templates for RDoc [4].
> >
> > I would suggest that the team be formed from people who have strong
> > design skills. _Why has been flirting with an idea for ruby-lang.org
> > [5]. I nominate him to be part of the team. I've also done my share of
> > design work for Web sites [6][7] and wouldn't mind being involved. Are
> > there others who can come forward and show evidence of there skills and
> > enthusiasm for this project? It would also be cool to have people with
> > strong coding skills, i.e. experience with pure CSS layout and XHTML.
> 
> While I'll probably not be able to spend a lot of time on this I would
> still like to help out with XHTML and CSS -- I've done this kind of
> stuff before and should still be fairly fluent in it.
> 
>