While you can't please everyone, I think you can definitely make a
conscious decision to do something that won't turn a lot of people off.
Neutral colors are safe, and I am afraid that brown is not in the same
category of "safe" colors for a professional web product, and as you
point out there are accessibility issues as well.
I worry that the current default Flexwiki.com look risks turning people
off before they can even discover what is great about the software.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek
Lakin
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:33 AM
To: FlexWiki Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] FlexWiki Style Feedback
Web site designs and style, as with any aspect of design and style are
always a matter of taste. If anyone doesn't like the new brown look,
then I'm sorry, but we can't please everyone. FlexWiki has always had
the ability to customise the CSS for the Web application and we have
also added in the ability to dynamically switch between defined
stylesheets. The current implementation also includes a stylesheet to
revert to the "classic" FlexWiki style if the new one is not to your
taste.
If there are specific accessibility issues or bugs, then please raise
these on the BugTracker [1] and we will endeavour to fix them as soon as
possible.
I'm not about to apologise for the new look and feel; I designed it
according to a style that I liked and it was available in the pre-RC
releases for some time before it was put live on flexwiki.com for people
to report bugs and to provide feedback. As I said, it would be
impossible to come up with a style that everyone likes, which is why we
implemented the ability to change the style and why FlexWiki has always
had the ability to customise the CSS.
I appreciate your feedback (negative or otherwise) and encourage you to
develop alternative styles that we can provide with the FlexWiki
installation.
Many thanks,
Derek
[1]
http://www.flexwiki.com/default.aspx/FlexWiki/SourceForgeBugTracker.html
On Nov 14, 2007 11:28 AM, Nathan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 6:28 PM, Walt Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> Change the name to "Espresso" and it suddenly takes on a pleasing,
> comforting tone ;)
>
>
Maybe 'Espresso' will stick better than 'chocolate.' I personally am
not a huge fan of brown in general (my wife and I argue over that all
the time, ;) so I feel that I'm particularly biased, and I'll admit,
it was the driving force in figuring out how to do the alternate
stylesheet work. I don't know what to do except to do some sort of
poll and then, more importantly, get the work submitted. Derek has
done a ton of work in this area and even if Espresso/Chocolate/Brown
gets out voted, I think that it'd be silly to vote in a change without
some sort of replacement to go with.
Aside from chocolate, there is one thing that I would like to see
changed: I believe that the borders are too wide. I don't know if they
were widened for a particulary purpose, but there is considerable
whitespace "wasted" on a normal 4x3 monitor, and a ton on 16x9
monitors. This is particularly noticable on the LeftBorder, but the
RightBorder could use a little Jenny Craig, too.
-nathan
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