New website theme, when to roll out?

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I think launching it at the same time as Amarok 2.0 would be more _fun_ :-)

For the new users coming from other platforms, it will not make a huge
difference as they have likely not visited our page before, but for
the old faithfuls it would help make the launch even more special and
really help mark our transition from Amarok 1 to 2.

So, my argument against is not really based on any concept of
technical perfection. Also, I doubt that we can get an "The Amarok
page has a new theme" story on Digg and friends. So the PR buzz of a
separate rollout of this will likely be limited.

- Nikolaj

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Heya,
>
>  emunkki (Pasi Lallinaho) has designed a new website theme for us. It's
>  been worked on for quite a while and went through many iterations, and
>  I think the latest mockup looks really neat:
>
>  http://projects.knome.ath.cx/amarok/WWW/
>
>  In my opinion this design is way better than our current old and
>  trusty design, and we should roll it out ASAP (as soon as the details
>  have been worked out).
>
>  Now a heated discussion has started about the right time for going
>  live with the new theme. I (and also Ian Monroe) would like to see
>  this implemented soon. Let me summarize our reasons:
>
>  1) Release early, release often
>  2) The old site is getting *very* long in the tooth. It demotivates me
>  just to look at it.
>  3) The new theme seems ready to go, design wise.
>  4) New site can provide us with some extra PR buzz, independent of the
>  Amarok 2.0 release.
>
>  However, some Amarokers oppose this plan; E.g. Lydia and Harald would
>  like to wait until the Amarok 2.0 release to roll out the new theme.
>  They believe everything has to be perfectly fine tuned (like adapting
>  the wiki and forum themes), and that it would create better PR to
>  release the new theme along with Amarok 2.0 final (which as we all
>  know will take quite some time).
>
>  I've become a bit tired of discussing this on IRC, so I'd like us to
>  make a decision here. Please voice your opinion :)
>
>  --
>  Mark
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