LHP Home page mock up

[Chamara Peiris]

Hi guys, here I have come up with the initial home page mock for LHP.ORG.

Comments are welcome.

Cheers,
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Chamara Peiris | http://apramana.com | http://sewuma.com | +94 712 967 967

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Great! I like it :)

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Malinthe Samarakoon
www.malinthe.com | blog.malinthe.com

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

awesome!!!
Tyronne



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/usr/local/tyronne
http://groups.google.lk/group/lanka-history-portal

[Prasad Ranatunga]

Wonderful!!
Neat work!!!

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[Chamara Peiris]

Need more comments... Malinthe & sriShanu would like to see both of urs mock ups as well.

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

working on one, will upload today

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Okay, here it is!
Based on Chamara's mockup.

[Chamara Peiris]

Malinthe, I don't like colors... site colors & logo colors are disturbing the user.

you can do better than this :)

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Ah, let's just use your mockup :)

[Chamara Peiris]

Others needs to speak as well...

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Yeah, what about SRIshanu's one?

[SRIshanu]

Hi guys.....   I saw 2 layouts... both look fine. Shall v make this 2 competitor (Chamara & Malinthe) competition? (Unless there's anyone else, not me)

I don't think I can do anything by today or tomorrow...  :(

pls..... let me b away (only) from this as im really really busy for next few days..... and I know that this can't b dragged for weeks.... so u guys go ahead.... :(

Chamara, Malinthe + others... soooo sorry....  :o)

Y don't other guys comment on the 2 designs? Criticize... It is the way to success.... (kidding... but still........ ;)

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ශ්රීශානු - SRIshanu
http://srishanu.blogspot.com
http://lankahistory.blogspot.com
http://srilanka2008.blogspot.com

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Well my mockup has some color problems. Any ideas guys?? Chamara?

[Chamara Peiris]

Malinthe, let's match it with the logo colors & make it more professional & easy for eyes :)

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Ookay :)

[SRIshanu]

Malinthe,

try doing the same deisgn, in logo colors.... it might solve the prob... and also make the background design lighter.. it's contrasting too much... I think what Chamara's trying to say by "professional" is, since this is LHP and not URUMAYA.lk, lets make it looks light and clear. (Chamara?)

[Chamara Peiris]

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Like this maybe?

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

looks very nice..
but i think the background is too light, hard to notice the nice design on it..

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Yajith Ajantha

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

අපොයි, ශ්‍රීශානු කිව්වා light කරන්න කියලා, යජිත් කියනවා dark කරන්න කියලා! මං මොකද කරන්නේ?? :D

[Chamara Peiris]

think out of the box :D

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

like what? not too dark, not too light? :)

[Chamara Peiris]

Yes and some creative way of using the background :)

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

ah, that's the problem - i suck at creativity! :)

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

අපොයි, ශ්‍රීශානු කිව්වා light කරන්න කියලා, යජිත් කියනවා dark කරන්න කියලා! මං මොකද කරන්නේ?? :D

:)

i have one more idea.. sorry if now its too late to make this change..
can u get the section where the text appear on, to appear on a -පුස් කොල පොත්- like background..
sorry if its too late for this.

current design is also quite nice..

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න <yaj...@gmail.com> wrote:

looks very nice..
but i think the background is too light, hard to notice the nice design on it..

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

Like this maybe?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Chamara Peiris <pei...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes :)

Cheers,
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Chamara Peiris | http://apramana.com | http://sewuma.com | +94 712 967 967

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Malinthe Samarakoon
www.malinthe.com | blog.malinthe.com

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Yajith Ajantha

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Malinthe Samarakoon
www.malinthe.com | blog.malinthe.com

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Yajith Ajantha

[Chamara Peiris]

oh!!!

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

not a bad idea, but i'd like to keep it simple and minimalistic :) - what do you think?

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

ideas?

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

yeah...if this would clutter the clean look you already have, its better off without it..
add it only if it doesn't.

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Yajith Ajantha

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

ideas?

how about trying to get text to appear inside a rounded edged rectangle thng....
if you have tried this already, and doesn't look good jus ignore this... :)

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Yajith Ajantha

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

made the bg a bit darker. can't think of anything else :)

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

thats what m talking about..
i think this looks a lot better.. wonder what others think ??

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Yajith Ajantha

[Chamara Peiris]

Malinthe, for me it's still dragging users to the background not to the content...

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

ah, any recommendations? was the previous one better?

[Chamara Peiris]

Mainly consider the content... then think about the background which will not disturb the user :)

[Nilaksha Rathnayake]

මගේ අදහස්, 

මම ඩිසයින් දෙකටම කැමතියි. හැබැයි කලර්ස් වලට නම් එච්චර කැමැත්තක් නෑ....
හේතුව, අපි ඉතිහාසය කිව්වම නිතරම පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ අඳුරු පාට. දුඹුරු, කහ, ගොමපාට වගේ පාට....
මම හිතන්නේ ඒ වගේ පාට වලින් අපි කතාකරන විෂය පිළිබඳව ඇතිවන ආකල්පය, හැගීම එච්චර උද්යෝගිමත් නැහැ කියලයි.
ඒ වගේ පාට වෙනුවට තරමක් හෝ උද්යෝගිමත් පාට කිහිපයක සංකලනයක් එකතු කළොත් හොඳ නැද්ද?
මේක මගේ අදහසක් විතරයි.

-නිලක්ෂ-

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay, here it is!
Based on Chamara's mockup.

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Malinthe Samarakoon
www.malinthe.com | blog.malinthe.com

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නිලක්ෂ රත්නායක

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

මේක LHP එකට විතරයිනේ. urumaya එකට වෙනත් පාට ටිකක් පාවිච්චි කරමු!

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

confused

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

just to be able to access the designs easily from the thread.. :)

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Yajith Ajantha

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

confused

sorry to have caused that.. :)
i agree with Chamara. Content is primary..
It would be great to hear from others as well.

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Yajith Ajantha

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

i'm still in favor of Chamara's one though Malinthe can still do a lot better than this. i know he's bit lazy but never thought he's too lazy (just like me , these days).

i agree with the point which Nilaksha made. it's very valid even though this is not our primary site, we have to make it really impressive/attractive ... but i don;t meant it to be a "maha thoran raajajaya" :)

Thanks
Tyronne

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/usr/local/tyronne
http://groups.google.lk/group/lanka-history-portal

[Pathum Herath]

මගේ මනාපය mock_v3

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෴පැතුම්/Pathum෴

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Time is being wasted guys, let's take chamara's mockup and go forward with it!! :)

[Nilaksha Rathnayake]

yes tyrone, it shudnt be a 'thoran' like thing.
I meant a charming one with some cool motivating colors...
like Chamara's sewuma.com or google colors....

-nilaksha-

[Chamara Peiris]

Remember, with this site we are targeting professionals, volunteers, not all sri lankans :) but with our urumaya.lk site we have to speak to all kind of audiences :)

Cheers,

[නිලක්ෂ]

yes chamara...
professionals will also like some attractive colors... :D
even we'll be motivated more..... ;)

-nilaksha-

[SRIshanu]

එක දිගට එකම ඩිසයින් එකක් වෙනස් කර කර ඉන්නකොට, කලාත්මක හැඟීමෙන් වැඩකරන්න බැරුව යනව. එපා.... වෙනව... මං හිතන්නෙ මලින්තටත් දැං ඒ තත්වය තේරෙනව ඇති.... අපි මලින්තට දැං "වද" දෙන එක නවත්තමු.... ;-)  මලින්ත, අදහස හොඳයි නේද? අදට ඕක නවත්තල, අවශ්‍යනම් හෙට ආයෙ පටන් ගන්න.

චාමර ඇතුළු අනිත් හැමෝම කියන්න, දැනට මේ තියන නිර්මාණ කිහිපය, අවසන් නිර්මාණය තේරීම සඳහා ප්‍රමාණවත්ද? එසේ නම් අපි මේ අතරින් එකක් තෝරමු. හැබැයි එහෙම නැත්තං.... තව නිර්මාණ කීපයක් ඕනෙ වෙයි. කට්ටිය මොකද කියන්නෙ?


නිලක්ෂ -
හොඳ අදහසක්, පෙට්ටියෙන් එලියට ගියපු එකක්.  :o)   හැබැයි, අපි මේ භාවිතා කරල තියන පාට වලින් ඓතිහාසික භාවය වගේම, Luxury / Rich / Prestigious (වංශවත් , සෞභාග්‍යමත් වැනි) යන අර්ථයන් ද දැක්වීමට භාවිතා කරනව. එවැනි අර්ථයන්ද අපේ කාර්යයට අදාල වෙන බවයි මගේ අදහස.  (මං ඇඳපු ලාංඡනයේ තියන පාට සාධාරණීකරනය කරන්න හැදුව නෙමෙයි. මොකද මං කලිනුත් කිව්වනේ.... Criticize... It is the way to success....)  :)

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http://srishanu.blogspot.com
http://lankahistory.blogspot.com
http://srilanka2008.blogspot.com

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

:) අදහස හොඳයි.

[Chamara Peiris]

Yeps that's good, but malinthe don't be lazy :)

Cheers,

[Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න]

+1

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Yajith Ajantha

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

i AM lazy, that's my nature ;D

[Chamara Peiris]

nature? do a climate change :D

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

I sure do need one! :)
You see, i got up at about 5.30 today and it was freezing. i couldn't even move the mouse or push the buttons on it properly, it was soooo freezing, like a deep freezer! and i went to town at about 12.00 and it was so hot, i was sweating like crazy! this is the strangest climate i have ever experienced!

[Chamara Peiris]

ah make sure u r in kandy :D and don't get lost when u going to town & always take the correct bus :D

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

ROTFL :D

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Chamara Peiris <pei...@gmail.com> wrote:

ah make sure u r in kandy :D and don't get lost when u going to town & always take the correct bus :D

he doesn't always take the correct bus. you guys can remember that on 16th Feb .. where i witness... ;)

so now.. this is well documented. :P

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/usr/local/tyronne
http://groups.google.lk/group/lanka-history-portal

[Nilaksha Rathnayake]

he hee... like on dat day, we had the meeting....

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

ahem, i took the correct bus tyronne. well i didn't drive it did i? simply put, that driver was an !@#$%^& - i'm not responsible for that!!

[Nilaksha Rathnayake]

ya ya.... you 2 guys made me crazy... :D
I was  wondering what has happened to this guy, (malinthe)...
I thought he'll come earlier than me.... :D

by the way, tyrone... wherz d photos ?

-nilaksha-

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

he's still looking for the his data cable :P

[Chamara Peiris]

data cable is wit u malinthe? :D

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

nope

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

i'm well organised.. a person who follows 5S , as seen at most of the gvt organisations.. so i'm still searching for it.. i have to find it today , one way or the other .. for i have to leave on 27th morning. :)

thanks

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

i will create a separate thread for the TO DO list

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

you'll be going to US?

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

you'll be going to US?

yeah. that's for a week. to Boston/Westford. so i need to get hold of this cable.. was so busy over the days .. have to do so many things but you only get just 24 hours ..:)

TW

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/usr/local/tyronne
http://groups.google.lk/group/lanka-history-portal

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

Okay guys, let's begin this again. Now tell me *exactly* what's wrong with the current mockup. I can't understand your cryptic language :)

[Chamara Peiris]

For me it's too strong & common :)

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

ah :)

[Waruna Perera]

Hope u ppl hav a great time. I cudnt start writing initial content which is required due to some work. Will b giv it 2 u guys by friday.

rgrds

Waruna

[SRIshanu]

Malinthe, I think u better start doing a new design instead. It will help u to gain ur creative ideas back.  :o)

Make "SIMPLE/" the theme. Use colors, but keep SIMPLE. Use shapes (symbols/designs), but SIMPLE... This may fulfill the requirements which all of us discussed through out.

BTW - We havn't drop out Chamara's design...  :)  Isn't it guys?  I like it. But thought it need few (simple) amendments.

[Malinthe Samarakoon]

I'll make another one, just for fun. I really think we should use chamara's one and get this over with. :)

[Tyronne Wickramaratne]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Malinthe Samarakoon <mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll make another one, just for fun. I really think we should use chamara's one and get this over with. :)

we all waiting for that :)

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/usr/local/tyronne
http://groups.google.lk/group/lanka-history-portal

[Chamara Peiris]

Still no suggestion for the mock i did :D