<div dir="ltr">Sharon, I agree with you. Let's launch a Scribus design task force!<div><br></div><div>Having that kind of "semi-professional" look and feel is very normal in the area of non-commercial software. And it's a general trend, in the field of science, or of software engineering. Look for instance at the web page of Tim Berners-Lee <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/</a> – it's certainly not a matter of lack of funds, it's just a different mindset. Among software engineers, you *dont'* judge a book by looking at the inside, not by it's cover (quite the opposite, actually).</div>
<div><br></div><div>If a few people join forces and invest the needed energy, we may perhaps achieve something. As an inspiration, we can look at the FontForge website redesign, that went from this - <a href="http://fontforge.org/">http://fontforge.org/</a> - to this more inviting version : <a href="http://fontforge.github.io/">http://fontforge.github.io/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>On the other hand, here is a bad example of slapping "professional design" on a FLOSS project in an artificial way – the new landing page for LibreOffice, that was commissioned from some design agency: <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/">http://www.libreoffice.org/</a></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Sharon Villines <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharon@sharonvillines.com" target="_blank">sharon@sharonvillines.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just joined this list in preparation for my version of InDesign to become obsolete. I've looked at Scribus and find that it will require a period of learning that I'm not yet willing to do. By reading this list I thought I might become more attached to the open source effort and pick up some and learn a bit here and there so it won't be so hard later.<br>
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In visiting the website to join and clicking through to various information sites, I am struck by the low level of design quality. The websites look like throw backs to the 1990s. Is this intentional? When it is not up to industry standards it doesn't convince me of the capabilities of the software. In graphic design, the book is judged by the cover. Artists not only adopt software they join an aesthetic. Adobe is an example.<br>
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Since there is wonderful open source software readily available for website design, like Wordpress which arrives with good typography and color palettes, why not use it?<br>
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Sharon<br>
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