[ gpsdrive ] Project branding and website

[Joerg Ostertag (Tettnang)]

On Sonntag 10 August 2008, Alexander Lindström wrote:
> Hi! I'm from Finland and I've been dreaming about putting a GPS-device on
> my bike (a scooter from Derbi) and checked out some of Garmins products,
> and then began searching for software working on Linux (which I prefer to
> use) and i found GPSDrive.
>
> I think GPSDrive (Yeah... it's not Gps, it's GPS) would be very more
> popular if the website weren't so geekish. I was about closing the website
> because I tought the project wasn't in development, it looks like the
> website was made back in 1998.
>
> I'm really good at designing with CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict (all validated
> by W3C) 

Sounds good. How would something like this look like?

> and using mySQL, PHP, and CMS-systems.  

I think, usually these things are not really necessary. 

> I'm also familiar with Adobe 
> Illustrator and I would be very interested at branding this project much
> better than it's now. Think of other GPL-projects which websites look very
> up-to-date and open source already at the frontpage. 

Can you give us an example?

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Jörg

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