Okay, I'll check out the different font option and give you something to evaluate. I prefer news cycle in your two examples, but this gets subjective fast! Maybe I can find a third option that we'll both like.
As to page width, I can widen it a little, but I do have two design goals I'd like to consider preserving: First, the current design fits in one half of a 1920x1080 display, which is to say it is less than 960 pixels wide, including the scrollbar. I use the linux/windows feature of attaching windows to the right or left side a lot, so this is pleasant for me. Second, the mobile use case: I'd like to keep the site usable from a phone or tablet, and adding width doesn't help there. I'm personally not a big fan of the links-on-the side approach, but of course I can see why it's convenient. All I'll say is that it's nice (for me) to get more stuff out of view and focus on a given page's content. Thanks! Justin On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <dpie...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 05:59:50PM -0500, Justin Ross wrote: >> http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/output/ >> >> Hi, folks. This is the first public draft of the new site I've been >> working on. I'd appreciate your attention and comments. I'll be >> incorporating your feedback and producing new drafts on a weekly basis >> until it's time for release, perhaps when 0.22 is ready. >> >> The site should look like the images below: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/transom-1.png >> http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/transom-2.png >> >> If it doesn't, please send me a screenshot of what you get and some >> details about your platform. >> >> I have some more to say about the general information design, but I'll >> save that for a subsequent mail. > > Here are the two screen captures I did on my system: the first [1] is > the default, rendered in Firefox on Fedora 18, while the second [2] is > using Arial 12pt on the same. I find the Arial 12pt more appealing to > read. > > Also, since most systems these days have screens with >= 1280px wide > displays, can we adjust the width of the webpage accordingly? There's a > lot of empty gutter space on either side that feels wasted. Even if we > constrain the main content to a region, say, 1000px wide (to > accomodating people on older displays) we could still have some common > links or a table on the right that's 280px. > > [1] http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/news-cycle-14pt.png > [2] http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/arial-12pt.png > > -- > Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. > Delivering value year after year. > Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. > http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@qpid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@qpid.apache.org
