Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-24 Thread Jim Hall
> > > What do you mean "the screen flickers"? Do you mean you get a "flash" > > > of unstyled content, or something else? > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM shian wrote: > > > > Looks like it happens because the browser renders overlapping layers, first > > in dark color > > and then in bright c

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-24 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
Hi, I found the reason why the screen flickers in freedos.org (on my PC): I'm using Firefox 89 on Linux Mint with Dark theme. The screen flickers because Firefox is using the dark system's theme as well. I switched to Bright theme on Linux Mint, restarted Firefox, and the problem disappeared.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM shian via Freedos-devel wrote: > > "What do you mean "the screen flickers"? Do you mean you get a "flash" > of unstyled content, or something else?" > > Looks like it happens because the browser renders overlapping layers, first > in dark color > and then in brigh

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-20 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
"What do you mean "the screen flickers"? Do you mean you get a "flash" of unstyled content, or something else?" Looks like it happens because the browser renders overlapping layers, first in dark color and then in bright color, (maybe because width or height are not declared somewhere, or becau

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks for the feedback! I know about the vertical spacing issue. I need to do some tweaks to the layout/design but I figured I'd wait to get usability test results before I did anything there. So yes, that one is on my list too. What do you mean "the screen flickers"? Do you mean you get a "flas

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-17 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
Hi, https://test.freedos.org looks great - two things I noticed immediately: 1. the search box on top is scratching the underline of [About] [News] ... 2. when switching between [About] [News] [Contribute] ... the screen flickers (using Firefox 89.0.2 (64-bit)). It's a very nice and clean design

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-17 Thread tom ehlert
> It's been a while since I talked about the website redesign. It's been > a slow process, but I finally have an iteration live on the test site: > https://test.freedos.org/ for me, it's usually to download a single utility; I have not interest to download 0.5 GB AND INSTALL THIS TO A NEW MACHIN

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Bret Johnson
For me, the thing I usually do is look for one particular utility program to download (e.g., the latest version of SWSUBST or KEYB or something like that). I'm not looking to install FreeDOS as a whole. Finding out where/how to do that is complicated and confusing. In your usability personas,

[Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! It's been a while since I talked about the website redesign. It's been a slow process, but I finally have an iteration live on the test site: https://test.freedos.org/ This design is definitely an improvement on the current design at https://www.freedos.org/ but it's not perfect. To

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
*This email is about usability testing process. If you aren't interested in this topic, you can skip this message. [..] > I've been working on the website redesign as a "slow burn" project for > the last several months. What drove me to get this iteration finished > is that I'm working on a usabil

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
*This email is about usability testing. If you aren't interested in this topic, you can skip this message. On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:31 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > It's been a while since I talked about the website redesign. It's been > a slow process, but I finally have an iteration