Hi Clayton, all,

I had a look at the source code of the new main page and found that at
least one of my suggestions had already been implemented - except that
CSS typos stopped them from having any effect - e.g. fontsize instead
of font-size, margin-botton instead of margin-bottom. So I have gone
through the code, fixed the typos, and added a few minor styles of my
own (mostly padding adjustments to improve spacing). This includes the
Top 10 template.

Regards,
Ivan.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Ivan M<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Clayton, all,
>
> A few minor points that I think would help make the page look a little tidier:
>
> * There is currently a dotted border separating the columns - given
> that each column section already has its own border, I don't think the
> extra dotted border is necessary.
> * I like the sound of teams, but it might help users distinguish the
> columns more quickly if they see the term projects as well.
> * Under "Teams", the underscores should be replaced by spaces in wiki page 
> links
> * The third column is out of alignment with the other columns (shifted
> up). It might also improve consistency if the titles (Top 10 Pages,
> Last Edited Pages) in the third column had their own border and
> background color like the rest of the columns.
> * Overall, It's very text-heavy and the text is more condensed than in
> the older layout - perhaps having icons for the table headers - e.g.
> Participate and Teams would add color to the page. Larger font-sizes
> for the titles might also help space things out a little.
>
> The new desig a big improvement over the old one so my only
> suggestions are little bits of polish :)
>
> Regards,
> Ivan.
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Clayton<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Just looking over the new Main Page... a few thoughts.
>>
>>  - We have two language "bars"... one on the right, and the "In other
>> languages" on the left nav.  We really should pick just one and go with
>> it.  The languages listed on the right is incomplete... there are a lot
>> more languages that the main landing page is translated into.  I would
>> suggest we drop the one on the right.
>>
>> An idea... we might be able to do something creative with this layout by
>> using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL... see
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList which is
>> installed/available already in the OOo Wiki).
>>
>> C.
>> --
>> Clayton Cornell       [email protected]
>> OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
>> StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
>>
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