Stas wrote > As I mentioned before the idea is interesting, but it's hard to make it > right. Looking at Allan's snapshot I see these problems: > > - it's hard to read the dark text off the dark bg. > Ideally you should find a constrasting color for every square. But I'm > not sure if it'll add to an abstraction.
possibly that could be solved but they are not the real problem > - when you do the front page this way, as a user, I'd expect the rest of > the site to keep the same theme and we don't. > > IMHO, a page with only boxes as the original creator did is much cleaner > and simpler. It's like a cover of the book, with the TOC and navigation > following the cover. i agree that it is cleaner and nicer. maybe im just fed up with "intro-pages" that happened a lot a few years back. what i do like about the gif i sent where the boxes are inside our shell is: - first of all it is way different from the rest of the site hence the "/index.html" is easily recognizable from the other content. having the same shell makes it similar to the rest of the site so i dont find it really inconsistent. - i really like the idea of the boxes, square is nicest but even non-sqaures; it gives the impression of something modular, which in our case is quite convenient, no? - on top of that theres the colors which are "our" colours so you know what you go into when you enter. but lets leave it as it is ... ./allan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
