I'm with Mr. Clark on the body text. It's fine, although switching to
Verdana would nudge the size of the type up a bit.
My comment before was mostly about the breadcrumbs which I do think
are a bit small.
- Eli
On Feb 26, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Colin Clark wrote:
Hi Jess and website-istas,
On 25-Feb-09, at 10:30 AM, Jess Mitchell wrote:
The font size is smaller than it was on the old site, but we did
that intentionally to keep from too much scrolling and the effect
the other site gave. For a reminder, have a look here: http://fluidproject.org/blog/
My vote would be to keep the text small, but we can certainly
entertain how small.
The more I look at the new site and compare it with other sites I
find are well-designed and easy-to-read, I don't think it's the font
size that is the root cause of our problem here.
To me, it's an issue of layout and structure: the body text size
looks small because of the context it's been flowed into. Taking
another pass through the design of the two-column main layout and
the post-it notes might help address this issue.
We may also want to try to play around with different font families
within a range of a few points of our current size. I'm thinking
Verdana might actually prove to be more readable at this size, but
the only way to know for sure is to experiment a bit.
In the end, we have two factors we need to balance: readability and
keeping essential navigation "above the fold." These are design
constraints we can iterate on.
We also need to address the blog...
I am tempted to put more than just release announcements on the
news. For example, I'd love to reproduce the short blurb here http://www.jasig.org/
and the longer text here http://www.jasig.org/fluid-uportal-collaboration-20
on our news feed.
+1. Although the past year has been pretty heads-down, and many of
our announcements have been limited to Infusion release news, we've
certainly used the site's news feed to announce all kinds of things.
The example you mention from the new Jasig site is a perfect example.
It also brings up the blog -- I'm thinking it should be on the Get
Involved page -- we don't have a link to it on the new site at all.
Get Involved makes sense to me, yes. And a new WordPress theme to go
with the refreshed web site will be great. Maybe with a smaller font
size? :P
Colin
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org
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Eli Cochran
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