Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums design assistance
I'd like to help, I like using CSS! Let me at it, if possible! On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:17 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: http://www.foopics.com/showfull/0a404f14eb9b5fee61518d808c5dd177 Wasn't happy with that one and only later realized that Help and FAQ are the same link. One should be dropped, FAQ is more descriptive. Community, Forum Actions and Quick Links are actually menus and should be differentiated from other links. Included them all in my new mockup, but perhaps it should be a single menu, or the actual actions right on the bar, depending on their max. number. I realize that such heavy modification can be problematic, but I wanted to see where I end up, applying more of the ubuntu.com style: http://www.foopics.com/showfull/24cab922804efd5587f7d8d6109d168a Login and Search button shown in disabled state, as they should be, if the entries are empty. An alternative to the stars (or other icons) for read/unread would be bold type, similar to what Evolution does. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- Rushane Alano Jones Body of Christ Consider these questions: 1. Do you have the right version of the Bible or a perversion? 2. Is your faith a belief or a practice? 3. What does the sacrifice of Jesus Christ mean to you? 4. Do you worship God as He spake it in His Words or as man's traditions prescribe... 5. I'd like to have a Bible Study with anyone at any time (as long as I'm not sleepy... It'll be a study, not a heated argument...) may God Bless you~ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums design assistance
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:17 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: http://www.foopics.com/showfull/0a404f14eb9b5fee61518d808c5dd177 Wasn't happy with that one and only later realized that Help and FAQ are the same link. One should be dropped, FAQ is more descriptive. Community, Forum Actions and Quick Links are actually menus and should be differentiated from other links. Included them all in my new mockup, but perhaps it should be a single menu, or the actual actions right on the bar, depending on their max. number. I realize that such heavy modification can be problematic, but I wanted to see where I end up, applying more of the ubuntu.com style: http://www.foopics.com/showfull/24cab922804efd5587f7d8d6109d168a Login and Search button shown in disabled state, as they should be, if the entries are empty. An alternative to the stars (or other icons) for read/unread would be bold type, similar to what Evolution does. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums design assistance
Hi! A bit late ... but looking at http://www.mikesplanet.net/forums/forum.php I see a couple of issues. Help sits between the closely related login controls and Register. Flipping Help and Register would fix that. Remember me? should not have that question mark. Haphazard placement. Would better be on one line with the rest of the login stuff. BTW, do users understand what that is about? The fist 2 tabs belong to the forum, but the other tabs are lying to us, as they are outward links. Same presentation for 2 different kind of links and breaking the notebook metaphor ... What's New? and Today's Posts are actually the same link. Don't use different labels for the same thing. Avoid duplicates, especially that close together. We have Forum, then [house-icon] Forum and Ubuntu Forums. At least 2 of these are redundant. The speech-bubble icons rely on their tooltip: Double-click this icon to mark this forum and its contents as read. Even if a better icon can be found, I would lean towards relying on a text link/command within the forum page (not on the overview). http://www.foopics.com/showfull/0a404f14eb9b5fee61518d808c5dd177 A rough mockup, trying to address the issues with the header. If we really feel a need to link to several other Ubuntu sites, an approach like the very top on http://www.heise.de/ should be considered. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
