On Jul 16, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Don Stewart wrote:
> If anyone is interested in a 2010.2 series design for the HP site, the
> repository containing the stylesheet is here:
>
> http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/
I like the content. The layout has some flaws when rendered on my environment
(Safari 4, but with perhaps narrower than most peoples windows):
* The background image tiled looks pretty bad - since I see repeats and it
doesn't really tile.
* The three columns at the bottom overlap! Perhaps this is a valid case for a
<table> rather than three <div>s and CSS layout.
* The word "Download" isn't actually part of the download link. Many people
might think to click on the Download text itself. Can we make that a link that
auto-detects your OS and redirects appropriately?
On Jul 17, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> Webdesign for an open source project is pretty much doomed from the
> beginning. Design requires a few opinionated people rather than
> democracy.
Truer words were never spoken! Good web sites always proceed from a single
graphic designer's vision. Great ones combine that with, tweaking after
deployment based on log analysis and A/B testing.
I saw we just appoint a short group of designers and let them at it, and deploy
it, and then see how it fares! I nominate Thomas and Christopher!
As for CSS wrangling, I've got a fair bit of experience at that. I've even done
it in the context of MediaWiki themes(*). If anyone needs some help on that
aspect, I'm volunteering. I'm pretty sure I could reproduce Christopher's image
in XHTML/CSS if desired.
- Mark
Mark Lentczner
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/
IRC: mtnviewmark
(*) My work on http://www.contextfreeart.org/ involves getting MediaWiki (used
for the download and documentation sections), phpBB (for formus), custom PHP
(for the gallery), and static pages to all style identically with CSS. I think
I mostly succeeded.
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