Mike Noyes wrote:
Everyone, phpWebSite 0.9 was released yesterday. You can get a feel for the new functions available by using the demo.
I plan to upgrade our site by the end of March. If you would like to help create a new theme for our site, please download the new release.
phpWebSite release story http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=464
phpWebSite demo http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/demo/0.9.x/
I took a look at the annoucement and all the examples that were listed here: http://tinyurl.com/766x
I feel that most of the examples are too busy with information spread carelessly.
It's msnbc overload. Have any of you seen those funny parodies they did on Saturday Night Live, where you can't see the announcer's face because they are covered by all the graphics?
Same feeling here and at too many other sites I visit.
That's why I like http://www.openssl.org/ and why I like http://www.google.com/ maybe not the best examples, but still.
Simplicity is a fundamental part of our LEAF nature. We boil an OS down to it's simplest pieces.
Sooo, I'd like to see 0.9.0 work great for you/us, but using all it's features is overload imo. That's my feeling on content.
Now onto User Interface issues, the only things that I noticed were:
A) people have no idea if the left column menu, which
is helpful, has a submenu for an item. There's no
+ sign.B) the way the list expands and contracts is *dangerous*
Why? Well because it's tempting to put maybe five items in a submenu. But people *only* get to see those 5 items when the menu is exapanded.
And maybe you have another five items on some other submenu. That means I have to memorize 10 menuitems and their relative location. Human memory fails around 7 things.
So if anything, consider: 1) only two items on any submenu 2) leave submenus always expanded.
It's better to see a bunch of menus fill the left hand column than splintered, vascillating information that probably belongs filed lower down than the home page. All imo, and I ask for comments.
okey, matt
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