I get your point. I doubt there are any statistics out there on the number
of people that dislike brown so much that it would put them off a web site
completely. Generally speaking, the tones in the new style are neutral, but
the background colour for the sidebars is quite dark.
If enough people here on the mailing list agree that lighter colours should
be used for the sidebars in the default CSS, then it can easily be changed
(it's just a simple JPEG image and one colour value in the CSS) and I'd be
more than happy to do so.
As I mentioned before, if the community would prefer to see something
different as the default style, or if they would like to contribute
additional alternative styles, then feel free to do so.
Thanks again,
Derek.
On Nov 14, 2007 8:27 PM, Jimmy Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 <http://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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