On 5/24/07, Frank Sundermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I finally managed to get the new skin working! Adrian and Darix set up a
test server, so you can test it under almost real-life terms!
http://en.test.opensuse.org/
The skin was completely written from scratch, so it is no longer based
on MonoBook or other existing MediaWiki styles.
Wow, that must've been quite some work =).
A few ideas/thoughts:
* For the top navigation/login, I really don't think it should be
enclosed by bars; bars should only be used to separate options.
i.e. | My contributions | Log out | ...should be: My contributions | Log out
* The non-exiting page link colour reads awkwardly on the green
background; too contrasting. i.e. such as | Apokryphos | My talk |
* Could there really not be perhaps a lighter hint of anchor tags for
a:hover? Some interaction is nice.
* Not sure if this is relevant to mention here (if not just ignore),
but could we do something about the navigation options on the left?
There's way too many entries I think, so it just gets confusing. How
about removing (from the "openSUSE" section) Home (I think Geeko
linking to home is intuitive; all other sites handle it similarly) and
Download+Build Service (link already above), and removing the whole
"Participation" section and instead just linking to a single wiki page
which has all the information on how to participate?
* Could the content-table have some type of Geeko-image styling?
Fedora one springs to mind, which is quite nice:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs
* Is the footer perhaps too large? Would combining two of the lines of
text be a possibility?
* I'm also wondering if the grey boxes are just a little too light in
contrast to the quite strong green? Could also partly be an issue if
we think the box-outline isn't strong enough.
* A few people I've spoken to just commented on the search box and
buttons appearing a little out-of-place. Perhaps the rounded arc is a
little too round? Indeed, there isn't anything else on the page that
round, only slightly curved.
* Perhaps something could also be done with the buttons displayed when
editing an entry? They still have the taste of monobook (that style
also appears elsewhere I see).
All the special pages I looked at looked pretty good to me; really
looking forward to this theme going live :)
Kind thoughts,
--
Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org
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