Hi Marcus,

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Marcus Lange <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>> * The page does not seem to scale to 800x600
>
> AFAIK the requirement for all websites is to support 1024x768 as minimum. Do
> you still work with 800x600?

Thankfully, no :). But the Download home page displays reasonably well
at 800x600 with no horizontal scrolling, so I was just wondering why
your proposal does not seem to scale for widths below 1024px. It's not
a major issue - there probably aren't very many people still using
800x600, but if can be scaled down, why not? I can help out with this
if necessary - it should be reasonably easy to do.

>> * The blue and green download buttons should not be used for RCs/Dev
>> builds  - e.g. from the download homepage, their meanings are: blue
>> download button is for extensions, green button is for stable major
>> releases. I would advise against recontextualizing these buttons.
>
> I've made 4 rows just to see if this would still fit on the page. I think we
> will not see 4 rows in live but who knows. However, I've removed it now.
>
> Also the colors will change. Have you seen my color suggestion in the
> previous posting?

I'm not sure how fiery the buttons should be to alert users about
these downloads - I would suggest:

- Lime for RCs (more yellow than green) -or- the same as the bottom
button on download.OOo
- Orange for Dev 310
- The same for Dev 300 if both have a similar status as dev builds -
having two different colors would suggest (IMO) that one is less
stable than the other (I'm not sure if this is the case or not - if it
is, then something darker than the button for Dev 310 would be
appropriate)

I can make up some buttons based on whatever colors are chosen if
you'd like, and I can add some extra styles to the main download
stylesheet to fix the current CSS issues once the colors are decided
upon.

>> Other page
>>
>> * Those gray tables look really unfriendly. Cells could really do with
>> some padding.
>
> In order to use a known color I've used the same gray from the bigger
> other.html page. Have you got a favorite color that you would like to see?

It was more of a first impression, but in this case, the
'unfriendliness' might even be functional (sending people who don't
know what they're doing away) :)

Regards,
Ivan.

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