Improved site look and feel
Hello everyone, The recent changes to the main site included a number of modifications to the site's content, but the look and feel of the site seems to have slipped . I feel In order to attract people into the site and get them to actually read that content, it needs to be presented in an appealing manner. So I've started working on addressing this problem. I've attached a mockup (no HTML yet) of a possible revision to the site. I tried to take the logo and continue down that line with rounded corners and a light green theme. http://wiki.apache.org/ws-data/attachments/Tuscany(2f)ClickableImages/attachments/SiteMock%288-11-06%29.png?1155321723.49 Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas. -David W
Re: Improved site look and feel
Very nice. Thank you. Just one tiny suggestion, the green color and blue color are right next to each other, is it possible to change one of them since there might be people having difficulty to distinguish them? On 8/11/06, David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, The recent changes to the main site included a number of modifications to the site's content, but the look and feel of the site seems to have slipped . I feel In order to attract people into the site and get them to actually read that content, it needs to be presented in an appealing manner. So I've started working on addressing this problem. I've attached a mockup (no HTML yet) of a possible revision to the site. I tried to take the logo and continue down that line with rounded corners and a light green theme. http://wiki.apache.org/ws-data/attachments/Tuscany(2f)ClickableImages/attachments/SiteMock%288-11-06%29.png?1155321723.49 Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas. -David W -- Yang ZHONG
Re: Improved site look and feel
Do you mean the blue in the project diagram? As I can create an updated version of that, but it wasn't going to be a part of the changes. On 8/11/06, Yang ZHONG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nice. Thank you. Just one tiny suggestion, the green color and blue color are right next to each other, is it possible to change one of them since there might be people having difficulty to distinguish them? On 8/11/06, David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, The recent changes to the main site included a number of modifications to the site's content, but the look and feel of the site seems to have slipped . I feel In order to attract people into the site and get them to actually read that content, it needs to be presented in an appealing manner. So I've started working on addressing this problem. I've attached a mockup (no HTML yet) of a possible revision to the site. I tried to take the logo and continue down that line with rounded corners and a light green theme. http://wiki.apache.org/ws-data/attachments/Tuscany(2f)ClickableImages/attachments/SiteMock%288-11-06%29.png?1155321723.49 Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas. -David W -- Yang ZHONG
Re: Improved site look and feel
David, Your prototype is more user friendly. Would it be possible to see a mock up with these changes for comparison? Your talent in graphics is much appreciated :) - Choose a lighter green than the one we have in the header for community, general, etc. boxes. Perhaps the same as the background in the logo. - Don't grey the boxes for community, general, etc. This would get rid of the empty grey box below header in the larger frame where the diagram resides - Leave the grey shadow line around the boxes. It is nice. - Tone down the architecture diagram colors. Use shades/variation of the same color. Perhaps light blue, mat blue and grey - possibly extend the architecture diagram to show an SCA composite application diagram which when clicked on would take us to a code sample - Change the red font for the links on the webpage to dark grey Thanks, Haleh On 8/11/06, David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean the blue in the project diagram? As I can create an updated version of that, but it wasn't going to be a part of the changes. On 8/11/06, Yang ZHONG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nice. Thank you. Just one tiny suggestion, the green color and blue color are right next to each other, is it possible to change one of them since there might be people having difficulty to distinguish them? On 8/11/06, David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, The recent changes to the main site included a number of modifications to the site's content, but the look and feel of the site seems to have slipped . I feel In order to attract people into the site and get them to actually read that content, it needs to be presented in an appealing manner. So I've started working on addressing this problem. I've attached a mockup (no HTML yet) of a possible revision to the site. I tried to take the logo and continue down that line with rounded corners and a light green theme. http://wiki.apache.org/ws-data/attachments/Tuscany(2f)ClickableImages/attachments/SiteMock%288-11-06%29.png?1155321723.49 Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas. -David W -- Yang ZHONG
Re: Improved site look and feel
On Aug 11, 2006, at 6:04 PM, haleh mahbod wrote: David, Your prototype is more user friendly. Would it be possible to see a mock up with these changes for comparison? Your talent in graphics is much appreciated :) - Choose a lighter green than the one we have in the header for community, general, etc. boxes. Perhaps the same as the background in the logo. - Don't grey the boxes for community, general, etc. This would get rid of the empty grey box below header in the larger frame where the diagram resides - Leave the grey shadow line around the boxes. It is nice. - Tone down the architecture diagram colors. Use shades/variation of the same color. Perhaps light blue, mat blue and grey - possibly extend the architecture diagram to show an SCA composite application diagram which when clicked on would take us to a code sample - Change the red font for the links on the webpage to dark grey Thanks David I think this looks nice too. Generally I don't get too much into color schemes but I think lightening the green or limiting the number of colors/contrast may make the important things stand out a little more. We could do something like adopt the colors of the Tuscan flag :-) http://www.flagsonline.it/asp/bandiera.asp/bandiera_Toscana/Toscana.html Jim Thanks, Haleh - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
