Forgeot Eric (2011-09-13 22:15): <...> > 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.
The fixed width and centered box at geany.org looks kind of squeezed even with 1280x1024 resolution. The colors need more contrast: dark-gray on light-gray for text and soft-blue on light-gray for links isn't good for the eyes. Moreover, pmwiki.org skin adapts better to smaller widths, and it only needs 'max-width: 60em;' on #wikitext to adapt better to wide screens (and perhaps some tuning to padding). > 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). I didn't find it that easy to configure either. But I have a bad habit of starting from scratch... > Also the menu is called wikileft, which needs to be renamed if the user > wishes to put it on the right. Yes, a skin update would do good to rename it to wikinav, wikiside or something. > The reference to microsoft-only fonts could be avoided: arial, verdana. > Serif, sans-serif could be enough. Yes, and a comment could point to pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Fonts, which could point to google.com/webfonts :) > 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) It really depends on the font and the text size, not on font type. > 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 If #wikileft were floated, you would still have to scroll, but vertically instead of horizontally. Not sure which is easier with mobile browsers. I think that the default skin shouldn't resort to user agent sniffing (ala DetectMobile), but it could try to adapt better with CSS. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
