Hey Jef, I had a little play with Firebug too and these changes did make the pages a lot cleaner. I think showing a clearer hierarchy between elements it's rather important — for example you hadn't noticed the headings…
About having one of the headers in orange and the other ones in grey, I suppose it's a matter of experimenting and seeing what works best. Thanks, Yaili. On 2010/11/05, at 13:08, Jef van Schendel wrote: > 2010/11/5 Inayaili Leon <inayaili.de.l...@canonical.com> > Most of the points we've mentioned at the UDS session regarding the design > have already been covered by Mike, so here's a list of what we think would > benefit the design further and could bring the design more in line with the > guidelines. These are things Jef (who offered to help Mike) might want to try > out. > > Hi Yaili, > > I see it has already improved a lot since the last time I looked at it > (removal of the gradients, correct header color, among others), sweet. :) > > I've noticed you're using a blue colour on the borders of the table > headings. This colour doesn't exist in the guidelines. Making the borders > white or removing them altogether might improve the overall design. > > If possible, the drop shadows on tables should be removed, as they > make the tables look heavier and they don't conform to the guidelines > > Yes, I noticed these two things too when I played around a bit with Firebug. > When I first got to the page I tried removing a bunch of stuff to decrease > the noise. I figured the page is going to be busy enough as it is. Removing > that blue border and the drop shadows will make it look a lot cleaner I think. > > * Colours: > > The orange is now following the guidelines, that's great. You might > also want to try and instead of using orange for the headers in the tables > use the grey (#AEA79F). You can see it on the web guidelines, on the tables > page. This will make the pages a bit less loud and will add a nice level of > hierarchy between header, footer and main content. > > Oh, that looks nice! The "What's Going On?" table uses a different class for > its header, I think maybe keeping that one orange might be smart, to separate > it from the tables above it? > > The title of the pages can/should be larger (the h1 element), to make > it clearer which page the user is in > > Yikes, I didn't even see that header until I read this... It's much clearer > on the individual forum pages and threads. I might be going too far here > (Mike told me we don't want to mess around too much, because it can make > security patches a mess), but is it possible to remove it on the front page? > It already says "Ubuntu Forums" in the header after all. > > I'll have another look at these pages in the weekend, maybe I can find some > more things. :) > > Jef > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
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