Paul Morris Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:43 AM > I have some more changes to propose for the website. You can see two > mock-ups at the links below (just remove the spaces in the URLs). One uses > the current green color for the background, and in the other I tried out a > blue background which offers more contrast.
Individually comments below. Most I like, but a couple I don't. Thanks for doing this - I'm well aware of the effort involved and the difficulties of achieving good artistic design (usually by my failing!) Trevor > 3. current green background color: > http://clairnote.org /lilypond-web-demo3/ > > 4. blue background color: > http://clairnote.org /lilypond-web-demo4/ Definitely more contrast, but also definitely not an improvement. > Below is a list of the main changes. Let me know what you think and if you > like one version better than the other. > SITE BACKGROUND > > - The background color that fades in at the top left corner also fades in at > the top right. This complements the horizontally centered site design and > provides greater symmetry (especially noticeable on wider monitors where the > background color falls more outside of the main content area than behind it). Like > - Rather than the background color fading to pure white and the boxes that > contain the site’s content having a slightly off-white background (as on the > current site), the background fades to off-white and the content boxes are > pure white. This way the foreground/content is slightly brighter than the > background, which helps the eye focus on the content. Like > HOME PAGE > > - Simplified by removing two graphical elements — the “squiggle” and the > “What is LilyPond?” green bar that fades out horizontally — both of which are > unlike any other visual elements on the site and so they don’t “tie in” well > with the overall design. (IMHO they don’t add much and actually distract > from the nice big image with the lily and music notation. They both had pure > white backgrounds, so that’s why I’m proposing this change to go with the > background changes.) Don't like. The new apearance is cleaner, but also, I think, too stark. I also rather liked the separated text and link to "read more". It looks far more inviting. > - The summary text is larger. I agree the original text is a little small, but this changed text looks too large for my eyes. > - For each news item the horizontal dividing line comes before the title, > rather than after it, which makes it easier to tell them apart. (See also > the introduction/examples page, which uses the same css class for some > reason.) Like > OTHER PAGES > > - The boxes containing the site content have slightly rounded corners to > match the rounded corners of the navigation bar, for greater visual > consistency. Like > - The spacing of the headers on these boxes is adjusted slightly so the words > are more vertically centered. Like _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel