Stephen, you hit on the point that was a revelation to me (back in the day). The Fossil web site isn't a web site; it's the WIKI.
The discussions of page design aside, perhaps that fact should be mentioned in the first bullet. -----Original Message----- From: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] On Behalf Of Stephen De Gabrielle Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:12 AM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: Re: [fossil-users] IMHO Fossil needs renaming... As, I hope, all list subscribers know, fossil is easily reskinnable. Being self-hosting, the fossil site is too. Can I suggest a competition with a few simple criteria & small reward - site should continue to be accessible for the sight impaired - CSS & HTML only. (extensive js can require more long term maintenance than is desirable) - should be accessable on a wide variety of devices (android/iPhone type smartphone browsers, tablets & netbooks 7?-10 inch both orientations, right up to my nice 24 inch screen) - should cope with users changing the browser font size, and setting low screen resolutions on small desktops/laptops - the logo should still be a fossil of some sort. Petrified wood and microscopic fossils allowed - changing the name is not an option. Winner gets the respect and admiration of their peers, runners up get included as selectable skins. What do you think? Stephen On Thursday, March 3, 2011, Kristoffer Lawson <se...@scred.com> wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2011, at 13:41, Richard Hipp wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Trou Macacq <mac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Design matters. >> >> >> Design != eye-candy > > Actually there is research to the opposite :-) > > When tested people quite literally find better looking services to be easier (not to mention more tempting, which should be obvious). The exact same functionality, or even worse functionality, when it looks good, is rated as being easier. > > I agree with the posters here that the main Fossil website could do with a bit of a touch up. If we were using Fossil I could possibly justify spending a few hours doing a bit of design on it myself. As it stands I wouldn't want to promise anything, although I'd be tempted to play around with it. > > For the record I don't think we need some full-blown Web 2.0 Ajax monster, with half of the functionality not working or taking forever to load. The Fossil website is simple, and is great for that reason. So I'd be looking more at a tummy tuck than anything too extensive. > > -- > Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder, Scred // http://www.scred.com/ > http://travellingsalesman.mobi - 10000km & The world's most arctic startups > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
