Hi Alexandro, On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@openoffice.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Ivan M <i2initiati...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Alexandro, >> >> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@openoffice.org> >> wrote: >>> BTW I am not sure if I miss something but I havent seen any proposals >>> or tryouts. >> >> Two proposals were made in this thread (see Goran's email dated 4 June >> and my email dated 5 June) - I posted a summary to the branding list >> with links. So far, the second option (adapting the header colors) is >> preferred. >> >>> I was thinking on cleaning the site more, and have less >>> overal blue. This will help us get rid of the dilema of the background >>> on the header. >>> >>> It would make the site more sober but I think that is the overal >>> intend of the new design. The Splashscreen also has no background >>> color. >>> >>> I put a mockup here: http://alexandro.biz/try1.png >> >> The contrast between the text inside the header and a white background >> is too low and the S-curve really looks out of place by itself > > I dont think I agree with that statement, it might look out of place > because we are used to seeing it like that. But I have use this for > headers by itself and look quite approriate. Look at > http://education.openoffice.org under the title of the project for > example.
I honestly don't think it works well on its own in any case, but that's my personal opinion. >> - more >> drastic changes would need to be made to make your proposal work. It >> is also important to note that the minimalism present in 3.2.1 may be >> temporary - when additional branding elements are added, things may >> look a little different. I'd rather we keep the changes to a minimum > > I am confused, on one side you want to keep changes to a minimum but > on the other side you acknowledge drastic changes are needed. So what > it's going to be? Minimum now, drastic later. I'd like to keep changes to a minimum for now while we still have the old design (between now and the time the redesigned website goes live). I acknowledge that drastic changes are needed because of the new branding, and hopefully the redesign will address that. But that is (at least) a few months away, so we have to figure out what to do in the meantime. My view is that we should not spend too much effort on updating the website now when any changes will be replaced by the redesign in a few months. I consider changing the header color to white as quite significant, because it goes beyond simply replacing one or two images. As I mentioned already, the poor contrast it introduces is one area of concern. Another concern is that it significantly changes the dynamic of the header (e.g. what happens to the positioner? some NL projects that have customised positioners might not be happy about that). > The changes I bring are still considered minimum as there is just the > selection of taking out the blue background from the header. The > pantone could go untouched that way. Text in the upper right could be > just blacked as the rest of the text to increast contrastability. I would expect that changing the colors in the header to align them with the new logo will likely go unnoticed by most people, which is a plus IMO. I'm not sure the same could be said about making the header background color white. The S-curve was a mediator between the darker blue of the header and the white of the content; making the header white is a significant change because it changes the emphasis on different elements in the header. The concentrated color draws attention to a concentrated area on the page, which IMO is a negative. Also, the S-curve is no longer a part of OOo's identity so it will probably be deprecated with the redesign. Regards, Ivan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@website.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@website.openoffice.org
