Hi guys!

First time opening an issue. I want to propose a redesign of the landing page of elgg.org

As of right now, it looks dated and not attractive for newcomers. Would you be open to have a new theme for the community? There are several open source projects that can be integrated to improve the whole design of the landing page.

• Autocomplete populates with guid's instead of group names
• Autocomplete results have clickable links that navigate you away from the page

1. Handles no longer visible
2. Draggable is not working

IMHO, we need more room. Everything is so tiny that I am afraid I am going to miss when I click

We have the top bar, the header with logo, and the menu bar. I'd love to see a design that unifies all 3 somehow.

The header with logo in particular is adding very little value to the normal experience... Just taking up a bunch of vertical space.

1. Missing string for 'messages:fly'
2. Messages are not sent. 'You did not select anyone to send this to'

A few ideas/questions about footer.

Is it intended that elgg.org shall have the same footer as community.elgg.org?

Navigation:
Is it obvious where "Home" links to?
Shouldn't "Docs" link to learn.elgg.org/
We should add a "Download Elgg" link

Contact:
Why "info at elgg dot org" and not [email protected]?
Maybe a note here specifying where security bugs should be reported. They are sometimes posted in the community.

Legal:
Update copyright year?
Move "Domain Policy" to elgg-menu-footer

I prefer the stock elgg logo in this case, I think, which is crisper and clearer. But even there I think it could be tweaked to be slightly better.

On Samsung Galaxy SII portrait orientation

Something changes in elgg-breadcrumbs layout, so the element is sandwiched. I've posted here, but I do not know which plugin is causing it. Perhaps an admin knows?

Default installation:

Community:

Testing 1.9 upgrade, in maintenance mode the homepage still looks the same but login etc is non-functional with unexpected error message. The index should respect maintenance mode.

The search view has been moved to the sidebar and isn't accessible when logged out or on pages such as the home page, profile pages, etc.
This should probably be globally available.

Does anybody else see this?

Based on our analytics data, the vast majority of visitors do three primary things:

1. Look for plugins/themes
2. Look at the showcase
3. Look for help

So I'm thinking we make the three main content boxes be:

Suggested content

elggCommunity

A place for Elgg users to support each other

Themes and plugins

There are more than 2100 themes and plugins available to customize your Elgg site. Everything here is free, contributed by other members of the Elgg community.

Browse themes
Find plugins

Showcase

We currently feature XXX of the highest quality sites powered by Elgg to help you see what's possible and get inspiration for your own site. You can even show off your own Elgg site in the showcase too!

Browse the showcase

Need help?

Anything not addressed by the official documentation can be answered by our XX-member community. Search first, but don't hesitate to also ask your own question if you don't find the answer quickly.

Search the forums

Notes

A few things to notice:

• All text in "Sentence case", not "Title Case"
• Counts of themes/plugins, showcase sites, members, etc. should be estimates and cached so that the front page rendering stays snappy.
• Member count should probably be 30-day actives or something, not total registered users.
• Each content section has a title, one-paragraph blurb with links, and cta buttons at the bottom.
• Sections should display horizontally on large screens but vertically-stacked on small screens.
• No need for the two other sections at the bottom about how many members and how many downloads of Elgg, I think.
• No call to register. That should only come when absolutely necessary (like when asking a question or uploading a showcase item).

Logo seems too large for the header, there should be space around it, in my opinion. Something like 124 x 65. Current is 144 x 76.

http://community-test.elgg.org/

And we should add tint to make the shadow/border bluish.

It's the body background-color that appears. It is added to community_theme to add background-color to the area below the footer.

But the entire body section should not be pushed down, I think it's a bug in aalborg_theme, the float below is apparently redundant:

.elgg-layout-one-sidebar {
    width: 100%;
    float: left;
}

Could you guys consider adding "word-wrap: break-word;" to the a class?
I notice that the activity feed displays "too wide" on a mobile device. Using "break-word" should fix that.

The new image behind "elggCommunity - A place for Elgg users to support each other" is surely nice. But even on a large desktop monitor the "important" things of the landing page (links to plugins, showcase etc.) are barely visible. On smaller screens it's surely even worse. If you need to scroll down to be able to click on the buttons / links - or the even realize that they are there - it's a bit annoying and especially for new users also a bit confusing.

http://community-test.elgg.org/plugins/1616123/1.0.1/tooltip-editor
Could be a broader issue with the aalborg/core themes