Hi people, I spent some time on the forrest layout and reached a layout that appears promising.
The goals were: 1) visual coherence 2) simplicity 3) density of information, but without sacrificing readability 4) gives a proper graphical identity to the site 5) modular and extensible 6) impose the least possible limits to the nesting of the information 7) highly resizable (readable on 640x480) 8) color-blind friendly (luminance is associated with information, not crominance) 9) fast to download and to render (reduce graphics to the bare minimum) 10) high contract on content sections (black/white) 11) intuitive navigation up to the very last nesting level 12) media-specific formats (single-page|paginated|print-friendly) 13) made for newbies You find the screenshots at http://www.apache.org/~stefano/forrest/1.3/ where home.gif ----> the site home page page.gif ----> a paginated page very deep in the nesting hierarchy NOTE: the work is far from being done. there are a number of things that are yet to do and I think the homepage still needs lots of work on the software presentation area since I don't like the fact that crosses the 'fold' of the page (means that you have to scroll to see all the sofware). Comments and suggestions will be very welcome. Ciao. -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
