Given what the prior website looked like, it is a vast improvement. Nonetheless, I think Tim's points are spot on, especially regarding balancing white space, use of green, and the drop-down/tab disconnect (the tabs themselves look disconnected to me, and the grey shade for the active tab makes it look inactive from expected gui practices).
Nonetheless, I congratulate the GRASS team for greatly improving from what they had. I don't think QGIS should strive to replicate this look, though. Cheers, John On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:54 PM, G. Allegri <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly, I must agree with Tim. > Sadly because I know the effort made by the GRASS team to have the new site > out, but I cannot object Tim's points... > > giovanni > > PS: @Tim, I wasn't aware of the ongoing work to switch to a boostrap based > sphinx theme. What are you using for it? > > 2012/11/13 Tim Sutton <[email protected]> > Hi > > Yes I have seen it. With no disrespect to the GRASS folks I think it has > enough problems that I would not like to copy it on our site. My (hopefully) > constructive criticisms: > > * its very busy > * it doesnt have good whitespace balance e.g. module of the day box with > screenshots box floating to the right > * I love jquery but jquery css is looking old already > * there are too many underlines [ ] >> > and other characters that distract > attention and make it look not so friendly > * the panels on the left (search, latest news, map) should have been put to > the right > * there is too much white space in the heading area > * the logo really needs a refresh > * the heavy green bars distract your eye away from the content > * there are too many different font sizes and font styles > * the drop down menus feel visually disconnected from the tabs the spring > from and menus from tabs just feels kinda wierd > > In short it could really use a designer to introduce balance, correct > emphasis and remove distractions > > As such I would not be supportive of using it for our site I suggest to wait > for the sphinx theme based on bootstrap to come out and then start moving our > web content into that. We will do some customisations for the QGIS front page > and Richard has been making awesome progress in getting a well put together > bootstrap based sphinx theme in place for us when we can then skin using any > bootstrap theme (e.g. checkout some of the themes at http://bootswatch.com/). > > So -1 from me > > Regards > > Tim > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Werner Macho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there! > > Anyone seen the new GRASS Webpage? > I really like the clean and intuitive style with lots of information > presented clearly on the top page .. > Probably we can adapt it to "our" new webpage? > It even looks good on mobile phones .. > > Opinions on that? > > kind regards > Werner > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > -- > Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) > ============================================== > Please do not email me off-list with technical > support questions. Using the lists will gain > more exposure for your issues and the knowledge > surrounding your issue will be shared with all. > > Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: > * QGIS programming and support services > * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans > * FOSS Consulting Services > Skype: timlinux > Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net > ============================================== > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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