Oh, you're right. Here it is, forwarded to the dev list.
----- Original message ----- From: ":murb: [maarten brouwers]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:10:22 +0100 Subject: Re: [sc40] Might be a bit late, but is this useful... ? Hi, Think best to do is keeping this discussion only at the dev list, as most of the discussion is taking place there... Many people are only on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. g., Maarten Miikka Leskinen wrote: >On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:46:48 +1100, "Justin Clift" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>http://www.tinysofa.com/design/openoffice_proposal.png >> >> >> > >Looks great. Where did you dig up these people? > >I'm longing for larger text and better contrast for some items. Other >than that, it's a great homepage design. Looking at >http://www.postgresql.com/ they're doing pretty good job. > >This is the homepage. How about other pages? They can't be >white-on-blue, so the tab navigation doesn't work that way, or? > >Can we somehow combine these two designs? This and >https://www.sc40.sfo.collab.net/ ? > >By the way, it seems to have a lot of graphics. So make sure the final >version has less than 30 or 40 KB of images. What I'm concerned about is >the seagull background. > >The bird logos after headings is clever. But - I just have to say this >just in case - do the headings with real text. > >Now, the next thing is to draw up a final design of this. To technically >accomplish it. XHTML and CSS floats. > >By the way, the current sc40 isn't bad either. It's just techincally not >that... well, it's not perfect yet. :) > >And now that I'm at it, I'll comment on the current sc40 >(https://www.sc40.sfo.collab.net) design. > >I've wanted to say these many times now, but haven't dared because you >people are a lot wiser than me: > >Why are there news articles under the middle section? Do they need to be >there? They take a lot of space and leave the left and right sides of >the page empty, just crying for something to fill them. I have to scroll >down a lot eventhough this is the homepage, the entrance to the website, >and I'm on 1152x864. > >Why do I need to be so interested in these news that they're put there >right in front of me? > >Why are the components there, occupying one the most crucial spots of >the website (right below the "Google" spot ;)). > >Why? Why? > >Let's just crowd the homepage in a same way these two postgresql >geniouses have crowded it in their proposal. > >But the text needs to be larger. > >On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:28:39 -0500, "Daniel Carrera" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>:murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: >> >> >>>Therefore I would again ask you (I mean here all at the website-dev >>>list) for comments instead of pushing new -from scratch- design >>> >>> >>I have been commenting on your design for a long time, and saying that I >>don't like it because it does not put usability very high. I have sent a >>lot of detailed, very long, emails describing usability issues in detail. >>I've spent a lot of time saying that your design compromises usability >>just to be pretty. Just because you don't like the comments, it doesn't >>mean that there weren't any. >> >> > >Where? On some other, hidden mailing lists? I'm also interested in >seeing that discussion. > >Miikka Leskinen >miles_fin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
