Higgins Site Look and Feel Done

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• Jack draft new text picture concept for new home page - done for 3/25
• Mary Update plan with additional tasks and sequencing - done for 3/25 - will continue to evolve
• Can MediaWiki support expanding tabs?
• Respond to Bjorn about fade and button so rebels have some commonality - initial request 3/24
• Review status of effort with respect to engaging a Designer
• Prepare package for Designer for objectives for Higgins website - goal is new design and images that we can use to implement new look and feel and organization for www.eclipse.org/higgins website.
  • Bjorn is requiring a link to the standard project information somewhere in the upper left area of the page. Something to be the equivalent of this: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure/left-menu.php At the moment he is requiring the "About This Project" wording, etc., but is open to other ideas for our new cool pages.
  • Link to sample fade from Eclipse logo to Higgins logo. (Website still needs to have Eclipse logo at the top, like Apache projects have the feather. This is just an initial pass)
  • Still has Eclipse legal stuff at bottom.
  • Implementation: New design must be in PHP and technically compatible with Eclipse.org site where it will run.
  • Should pass the 5 second "Higgins is cool" test
  • May include new cool graphics for end user download button(s)
  • Colors that work with mouse and Eclipse logos (but not a yellow/purple theme.)
  • etc.
• Iterate on new design with Designer.
• Vet new design with Higgins dev list.
• Implement new design.
• Update Eclipse project "about" page that works with the new design.
• Create new version of intro/benefits text
• Navigation
  • Redirect higgins-project.org to www.eclipse.org/higgins [DONE]
  • Make one more clean-up pass on proposed navigation.
  • Post re-revised navigation organization to Higgins-dev list
  • Propose to Dev list for feedback
  • Implement new nav (implies re packaging of some web and wiki pages)
  • Implement new nav in meta data for wiki
  • Update all wiki pages to get new nav (add higgins project control code where still needed)if necessary