Hi Marcus, Sorry for not getting back to you eariler - I will take care of it over the weekend.
Regards, Ivan. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Marcus Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > Frank Mau has finished the implementation of the technical part and made > also some little adjustments. > > Please have a look for the website. I think some colors and arrows have to > be exchanged with that what you have created already, right? > > Thanks > > Marcus > > > > Marcus Lange wrote: >> >> Ivan M wrote: >>> >>> I've got the download buttons ready, but I will have to do some >>> restructuring in the CSS to make this more future-proof (currently >>> only one instance of each button is allowed because id's control >>> everything). And IE is being a royal pain. At the same time, I'd like >>> to make the CSS classes more semantic than #optionitem1 (e.g. >>> something like .button-green) >> >> Thats what I've also recognized and had to give up due to my little >> knowledge about web design. >> >>> You can see the buttons at: >>> http://download.openoffice.org/cachedimages/option4-bg.png (for RCs) and >>> http://download.openoffice.org/cachedimages/option5-bg.png (for dev >>> builds) >>> I've lightened the download arrow for the RC builds a little and used >>> the darker orange arrow for the dev build image. >> >> Great colors, I like them. :-) >> >> Best regards >> >> Marcus >> >> >> >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Marcus Lange <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ivan M wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Ivan, >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> OK, we should keep an eye on 800x600 if possible but concentrate on >>>> 1024x768. >>>> >>>>>>> * 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: >>>> >>>> What about the little disclaimer text above the colored links? Do you >>>> think >>>> it is sufficient? If so, then we can use some not that fiery colors >>>> maybe. >>>> >>>>> - Lime for RCs (more yellow than green) -or- the same as the bottom >>>>> button on download.OOo >>>> >>>> I would like to see the same yellow as 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 suggested different colors because of the different codelines. To make >>>> the >>>> difference also clear from the colors, not only from the text. But in >>>> general both are unstable builds. >>>> >>>> At this level OOO300 is more stable than DEV300. But this is changing >>>> always. ;-) >>>> >>>> IMHO we should see both codelines as unstable as this will be true most >>>> of >>>> the time. So, orange would be nice or light red. >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> It would be great if you can help with CSS styling. :-) I've uploaded >>>> the >>>> recent changes, so that my latest update is online now. >>>> >>>> Maybe you can create one orange (OOO310) and one light red (DEV300) >>>> colored >>>> link? Then we can see directly what looks better and what we should use >>>> finally. >>>> >>>>>>> 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) :) >>>> >>>> I would say let us stay with this gray. We can change it later on when >>>> other >>>> people have the same feeling. Also here my latest update is online now. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Marcus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
