On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle < [email protected]> wrote:
> As, I hope, all list subscribers know, fossil is easily reskinnable. > Being self-hosting, the fossil site is too. > > Can I suggest a competition with a few simple criteria & small reward > - site should continue to be accessible for the sight impaired > - CSS & HTML only. (extensive js can require more long term > maintenance than is desirable) > - should be accessable on a wide variety of devices (android/iPhone > type smartphone browsers, tablets & netbooks 7?-10 inch both > orientations, right up to my nice 24 inch screen) > - should cope with users changing the browser font size, and setting > low screen resolutions on small desktops/laptops > - the logo should still be a fossil of some sort. Petrified wood and > microscopic fossils allowed > - changing the name is not an option. > > Winner gets the respect and admiration of their peers, runners up get > included as selectable skins. > > What do you think? > Let it be so, as Stephen as suggested. Go forth and prototype. > > Stephen > > On Thursday, March 3, 2011, Kristoffer Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 3 Mar 2011, at 13:41, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Trou Macacq <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Design matters. > >> > >> > >> Design != eye-candy > > > > Actually there is research to the opposite :-) > > > > When tested people quite literally find better looking services to be > easier (not to mention more tempting, which should be obvious). The exact > same functionality, or even worse functionality, when it looks good, is > rated as being easier. > > > > I agree with the posters here that the main Fossil website could do with > a bit of a touch up. If we were using Fossil I could possibly justify > spending a few hours doing a bit of design on it myself. As it stands I > wouldn't want to promise anything, although I'd be tempted to play around > with it. > > > > For the record I don't think we need some full-blown Web 2.0 Ajax > monster, with half of the functionality not working or taking forever to > load. The Fossil website is simple, and is great for that reason. So I'd be > looking more at a tummy tuck than anything too extensive. > > > > -- > > Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder, Scred // http://www.scred.com/ > > http://travellingsalesman.mobi - 10000km & The world's most arctic > startups > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fossil-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > > > -- > > -- > Stephen De Gabrielle > [email protected] > Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 > Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 > http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]
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