Hi Forgeot, List, I have created a group Called "NewSkinIdeas" and posted an initial idea there in
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/NewSkinIdeas/CarlosAB Feel free to comment and post new ideas. CarlosAB On 9/13/11, Forgeot Eric <[email protected]> wrote: > someone posted (off list): > >>Hmm, perhaps you could show what you'd do differently? > > I'm working on something, but I'm not a special talented designer, and I > don't know much about CSS. (I often end up on the same designs) > > > I'd be happy though to participate to a "contest", a brainstorming or a new > group on PmWiki, as someone suggested. > > > Again, I don't necessary thing everything should be redesigned, but a few > adjustement could help to look better. The geany website (powered by PmWiki) > is a good example of an attractive design, yet quite close to the original : > http://geany.org/ . There are still blue links, but it's not color:blue; . > It's not perfect (followed links are not noticeable, it's still using > tables), but it doesn't give a bad first impression. > > Also I don't think the default design is **that** easy to configurate, > especially because of the tables which are probably necessary to remove (I > don't find they render good in text based browsers, in links it's ok, but > not in lynx). > > Also the menu is called wikileft, which needs to be renamed if the user > wishes to put it on the right. > > The reference to microsoft-only fonts could be avoided: arial, verdana. > Serif, sans-serif could be enough. > > I'd suggest to use a sans-serif for the menu, and a serif for the content, > because serif is easier to read when there is lots of text (but this could > be discussed) > > A fixed width, centered text area could be more readable for bigger screens. > For smaller ones, the current theme is not adapted, in particular because of > the left menu: on my phone, I have to scroll to be able to read the text. > For helping people reading from a mobile phone or small screen, it's better > to use this kind of recipe: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DetectMobile > together with this kind of skin (I've made a derivative for my websites): > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/IPMWikiSkin > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
