On 15 Mar 2009, at 12:26 AM, Sven-S. Porst wrote: > Thanks for your feedback everybody. > > Mike: > >> 1 - the mouseover popups for the features list are nice, but I only >> noticed them by accident. It might be worth making them links as >> well, >> without changing what they do, just so it's more obvious that they do >> something. > > Great idea. I changed that and made sure the links lose their link > colour on hover (to show there's nothing to actually click). > > While looking at the links I also removed the bold from the features > and the bullet points from the lists. Looks cleaner like this, but > could it be too clean? > >> 2 - the headings along the left are nice, but I'd like them more >> without the brackets. >> 3 - in those headings and in other headings and captions, you use >> all-caps. My preference would be for regular capitalization and the >> headings would still stand out because they're in bold. > > Hm, I'm not married to those ideas, but I do consider them part of the > whole design to give a bit of bibliography 'flavour' to the look of > the site. > > The site will certainly work without this but I wonder whether it may > be a bit bland. > > I put a little conditional in the new version so you can compare both > versions side by side (by moving the mouse in and out of the window). > > > Christiaan: > >> Actually, I think it's a bit slow now. > > Bummer, is that slow as in horribly slow? If it is, one may need to > look into dropping frames of the animation. (What kind of machine / > browser are you using?) >
I'm using a pretty slow configuration. PB G4 and FireFox 3.1b. It seems to be mostly slow the first time, so it may be the loading of the image. >> Did you have a look at the SF icons? > > No. I think I must have missed that point. I just put text at the > bottom of the page for the time being. > > Looking at their wiki suggests that we are 'encouraged' to use the > logo and that it's used for access statistics. Does anybody use these > statistics? > >> I'm seeing a little div at the top when I (re)load the page. It goes >> away when I click on a screenshot. I think it's a caption. > > Thanks, I didn't move the CSS properly. Got that one. (just the > solution you mention) > > BTW, is there any chance we have an original file for the icon? > Looking at it in the header there suggests that the shadow on the > right is cut off. That may be worth fixing in the icon itself. > If there is one Mike should have it. I think the cut off is in the icon itself. There also was a mention some time ago about the color of the shadow. >> BTW, I was wondering if it's possible to make the screenshots links >> to >> separate pages on browsers with JS support turned off rather than >> showing >> the divs at the bottom. > > > They actually do with the script used in this variant (which is > another reason why I prefer it over the one I tried in the index2.html > version). If JS doesn't work, all that remains is a direct link to the > image file. (One does lose the description that way, though). > OK, so I guess the divs at the end aren't used? Christiaan > Adam: > >> It looks like the headings are one table-row up from the >> corresponding >> text in the second column. I think it would look better if they were >> flush at the top with the text they are meant to "head." > > > I want the baselines to be flush but that didn't work for the first > heading (because of the larger size of the download link). I fixed > that now, even though in a different way than you suggested. > > > > > I also added a 16px BibDesk icon as a favicon now. But I don't really > think it comes out too well at that size. So I'm wondering whether it > might be a better idea to use the paperclip icon there, particularly > as the big BibDesk icon is visible on the page anyway. > > Current version at > > http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/bibdesk/bibdesk/index4.html > > Sven > > -- > Sven-S. Porst . http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp . AIM: cv47al > Pass as best inventor! > > Sven > > -- > Sven-S. Porst . http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp . AIM: cv47al > Pass as best inventor! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
