* Ali M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 09:00]: > One more thing I like about the grails site is that the design > is really different! At least to me its like nothing i've seen > before ... i will never confuse the grails site for another one
Honestly, I find the Grails site design quite ugly. I thought the CakePHP site was quite fresh. Which just goes to show – to each their own… In general, I disagree that striking and different is something one should aim for as a priority. If you can manage it, great, but the content is much more important: getting people to the information they need most (even if they don’t know what they are looking for yet!) as quickly as possible. The design plays a role here insofar as the placement of elements on the page is a usability issue as much as it is one of graphic design. > Tobias site uses a very common and seen-before button for the > download link, feels cheap to me (no offense) , so I guess we > should work more on this too That doesn’t feel cheap to me at all. The advantage of a really common download link button is that as soon as people see it, they know what it’s for. Mindlessly making something different just because you can is not a good approach; being different requires a very careful balance that I think only few people can get right. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
