All, I've posted the following to the forums
http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1481.0.html where I hope you will join me for a discussion. Getting a new skin for CZ, distinct from Wikipedia's, is a top priority for me this week. ----------- Let's get reskinned (finally!). I'd like to decide on a new skin by Friday the 18th. I can extend the deadline if someone has shown he or she needs more time...but let's get this done, and soon! Here's a new thread where everyone (not just people subscribed to Citizendium-Tools) can debate different skins. Many are available [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles here,] but most of those are pretty lame. There might be some diamonds in the rough. Please call our attention to them, if so! [Links in the following paragraph can be viewed at http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1481.0.html ] Fredrik Johannson designed some really excellent skins, article1, cztest2, cz3. The problem with these is that they are just images/mockups. The hard work of coding them in CSS hasn't been done. But Derek Harkness did a really nice-looking skin and it's already coded in CSS...we could start using it today, if we wanted (I guess). I am going to drive the decisionmaking process on behalf of the Executive Committee. But we will rely on the participants of this page to vet different proposals. If something is unpopular, we won't choose it. If something is the overwhelming favorite, we'll choose it. As Editor-in-Chief, I reserve the right to veto proposals. But be sure to make your views clear, both on which skin so far is best, and what requirements we should have. I propose the following requirements: * It must be neat and uncluttered. * It has to place the stuff that matters where it can be easily found. If either users or contributors will often want to be clicking on something, make sure it's very easily found. * Consider taking a clue from Fredrik (article1) who has useful content, perhaps of subpages, in a third column. We could have links to subpages there, too. That was one of the original inspirations for adopting a new skin, last summer...then we got deep into the realities of the coding of the subpage system. * It should be quite different from the Wikipedia skin. This could be "the look" of a whole new generation of wikis! Any other requirements? We would like to have subpages as part of the skin. If you can figure out how to do that, then please do. If not, that's OK too. Just make sure that they do look good with whatever skin you create, bearing in mind that we can change their color and some design elements, etc. Please comment here: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1481.0.html --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
