[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The new look for the SQLite website is now in place,
if you haven't already noticed:
http://www.sqlite.org/
Even though the new look is "in place" you should
understand this as a work in progress, not a done
deal. I am still looking for suggestions, comments,
and bug reports. I am particularly interested in
help in the following ways:
* Suggestions for something better to put on
the home page.
* Suggestions for better CSS for the CVSTrac
pages. Example: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/timeline
If you can save off a copy of that page, adjust
the CSS to make it look better, then send me
your adjustments (or post them here) that would
be a *big* help.
* Somebody please suggest a better tag line -
something better than "The World's Most Widely
Used SQL Database".
* Suggest changes that will provide a search
bar in the upper right-hand corner.
The feedback from this mailing list has so far been
very helpful. Please don't stop offering suggestions.
Richard,
A few things I have noticed since using the revised web site:
1) The line spacing of the sans-serif Verdana font is too tight, making
it difficult to read in blocks of text. I would suggest adding
"line-height: 16pt;" or something similar to the body section of your
CSS. The additional spacing make the text areas more readable to me.
2) I generally find the default Verdana font size to be too large. The
whole site looks better to me if I do (in Firefox) View->Text
Size->Decrease once to reduce the font size everywhere.
3) I agree with Scott Hess who has reported that the max-width of 800px
causes unnecessary wrapping in the navigation menu. In fact the current
menu (with the sitemap link added) is too wide to fit in the allowed
width on one line, and therefore wraps the support link to a second
line. Also, on the CVStrac pages, it is only applied to the header area,
so that the header is narrower than the CVStrac menu block on a wide
window. I don't see the reason for limiting the width to 800 pixels when
many people have much large screens these days. Maybe you could explain
why you think it is necessary.
4) The colors used for links are too similar to the text color and to
each other. If the links are supposed to standout from the text, the
color should be more distinctive. I appreciate that the links are
underlined, but I think a more distinctive color would help locating
them quickly. Also, the color difference between visited links is
insufficient to allow one to tell if a link has been visited or not with
a glance, unless it is adjacent to another link. If you don't want to
mark visited links, then make the colors the same. If you do, then make
the color more obviously different from an unvisited link.
5) There is no link to the CVStrac home page on the navigation bar, or
any of the pages reached from the navigation bar. I know I can go to the
timeline and then click the home link, but there should be a more direct
way to get to the CVStrac home page.
6) The same goes for the wiki pages. There should be a link from the
documentation page, and probably also from the support page, if not
directly from the navigation menu. People certainly won't use the wiki
if they can't get to it easily.
HTH
Dennis Cote
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