Nice work! One suggestion I have is to somehow make it a bit more
obvious in the main content area that that some components are the
children of the parent component above them (e.g. Layout Customizer is
the child of Reorderer). The way the pictures are staggered helps, but
I think we could do a bit more visually to get that across.
I was thinking it might be nice to have a {panel} box around each
component family, so I experimented with this in the wiki but couldn't
get {panel}s to cross columns. If that's not possible, or maybe in
addition, we could consider using larger headings for the parent
component than the child (this should even be a semantically correct
way to do it!). Also, even just a bit more indentation may help get
the relationship across...we could consider lining up the pictures of
the children right under the text of the parent component in order to
visualize the hierarchy.
Cheers,
Allison
On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Carl Forde wrote:
(trying with a different address as the first attempt was rejected
by the list server.)
I agree with this and I would like to see the tree diagram a bit
larger and included in the mainline of text. I think it would be
much better to use a lightbox effect, http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
, to view the full size image rather than stranding people on a
page containing only the image.
Perhaps a box with the text split between the sentences and in the
top right on a level with the 'Components' header? Prominent, but
out of the way.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Paul Zablosky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think you're taking this in the right direction. I don't find the
page overly long -- a bit of scrolling is not such a bad thing.
A few comments:
The tree diagram is a useful feature. It needs a bit more
explanatory text, and some de-jargonizing, but it will convey a lot
of information to the visitor.
I think the "Contribute Your Ideas" box should be moved out of the
main flow of the page to a more peripheral area. Perhaps at the end
or in the upper right. It raises a point that the user should be
aware of, but it's tangential to the main purpose of the page.
Overall, I really like it.
Carl
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Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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