Tatjana wrote:
Hello All,
I am a web developer working at Zmanda. We wanted to give a facelift
to amanda.org to make it more user-friendly as well as visually
appealing. Our objective was to do so without losing the site's
simplicity. Here is a draft of new version of amanda.org:
http://www.amanda.org/new_site_preview/
Currently I have only two pages coded in order to get feedback - the
main page and downloads page. Rest of the links point to the main page
itself.
Please let me know if you have any feedback on this new design.
Thank you!
My reaction is that it brings the web site more in line with current
professional standards for web design. The old page had become a bit
embarrassing and dated. It looked like something from 10 years ago or
more -- a time when hackers (used in the positive sense) did a lot of
the web design, before real designers got involved. Even then it took a
while for real designers to get their heads around web design and
transform it.
I could go into detail on the things that are good about the new design
(logo dropped back to a sensible size, coherent color scheme, clean use
of opposing tint gradations, clean tables); but, perhaps that's
presumptuous, since I'm not a designer. On the other hand, I do
appreciate good design and spent a couple of years trying to learn it
when I ran a graphic arts service bureau in the late 1980's.
It looks good. Information is accessible. Ranking of information seems
well done.
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