On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:15:37 pm Christian Van Brussel wrote: > It is a really good job. The layout looks really great, it is simple and > nice, and looks very professional. I like the logos too, it's a nice > improvement of the previous one, and it is great to have unified CS, CEL > and CELStart. Having a web site with a graphical layout of this quality > is an important step for CS. Again: nice job!
Thanks. :) > > One problem I see is about the menus. I think that having more than one > menu is confusing: once a new user finds a menu, he will most often > stick to it and will not suspect that there may be other menus. Also, > when you search for an information, you will have to scan both menus, > which is not really usable. I would prefer having only one menu on the > side. Personally, I actually like the top menu more. But I agree, a single menu is probably the right thing to do. And for a single menu, a menu on the left is arguably a better choice because you can have more items, which is important for quick access to things like the developer wiki. > > Removing the top menu may however open the feeling of an emptiness in > the top banner. Maybe it can be replaced by some image or text to not > give the feeling of a wasted space. I was also already thinking what could be put there instead. This needs some thought still. > > Still with the menu, I think that having it on the right side of the > screen may be problematic for exotic browsers or screen resolutions > (like for PDA's), and it may force the user to scroll the screen before > getting to the menu, which is a real pain. My personal opinion about > positioning web menus is that the best place is always on the left side. What I like about right-hand menus is that this IMO generates a more natural flow when you first visit the web site: your eye is caught by the homepage content on the left first and goes to the navigation on the right. For left-to- right readers anyways. But a menu on the left is also OK. > > Something that may be very great is having icon templates in InkScape so > that it is possible to generate easily new logos for the trac, the > forums, the new releases, etc. Also, we may need to have a squared icon > to be displayed eg by the graphical environment of the operating system > (the small icon which appears next to a running application in your OS > toolbar). For CrystalSpace, I thought of just taking the C with the iconic crystals around as an icon. The same can be done for CEL and CELstart, however they would look quite similar then. (A solution would be to make all three logos of a different color, as res suggested, but I don't know if that would blend well with the rest of the website theme, which is only blue - that would have to be tried out.) Regards, Denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
