On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put a few ideas together for a *.perl.org facelift. > > http://wardley.org/use.perl.org/test.html > > At the moment it's just a stick in the ground. It's probably the > wrong kind of stick and not in the right place, but it's a start.
I am hardly qualified to criticize, I think the initial impact looks good, but I discussed with a few people and a few functional questions/criticisms arose. == What's with the minimise icons in all the corners? == What purpose do you plan to use them for? In the given context, they appeared to some to be useless elements, who wants to minimise blog comments? I argued you could be using them as hooks for extra menu data, but I couldn't think of any valid menus that would be relevant to the elements you have them on. == Boxes In Boxes == To my eye, there appears to be a little bit of style overkill, surplus non-functional visual divisions. I've never been a big fan of the 'fat' borders, always trended towards minimalism. Its just some of it still feels a little cluttered, but I can't quantify why I get that feeling. == High Complexity == The menu bar is one of those things that often irks me, of course, entirely subjective, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ FAQ | About | Submit Story | Older Stories | Topics | Polls | Journals | Authors | New Modules | Preferences | Logout Is an awful lot of dissimilar items globbed together in a seemingly random order. User-Oriented Things, should Imo, be clustered together seperately. Submit Story | Preferences | Logout Content Related things, should likewise, be clustered together, ( and be more prominent ) Older Stories | New Modules | Topics | Polls | Journals Site Meta-Info, which is low traffic, should likewise be clustered together in a less prominent place. ( But still easy to find ) FAQ | About | Authors -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA [EMAIL PROTECTED]", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz