Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-07-06 Thread Tobias Kremer
On 06.07.2008, at 21:29, J. Shirley wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you very much! Marcus Ramberg already pointed me to the catalyst subversion repository where the eps version is also stored :) Hey Tobias and all, What's the verdict h

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-07-06 Thread J. Shirley
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Mark, > > Quoting Mark Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have the original .eps file of the Catalyst logo, you will find it at: >> http://www.external.shadowcatprojects.net/data/common/images/catalyst >> logo.eps > > Th

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-19 Thread Tobias Kremer
Hey Mark, Quoting Mark Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have the original .eps file of the Catalyst logo, you will find it at: > http://www.external.shadowcatprojects.net/data/common/images/catalyst > logo.eps Thank you very much! Marcus Ramberg already pointed me to the catalyst subversion repos

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Keating
I have the original .eps file of the Catalyst logo, you will find it at: http://www.external.shadowcatprojects.net/data/common/images/catalyst logo.eps It can be scaled to pretty much any size in a IMP but if you would like it as a png/gif/jpg of a set size/quality and do not have the time/i

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-19 Thread Marcello Romani
Tobias Kremer ha scritto: Quoting Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 08:40]: I've incorporated some of the suggestions into the next version of the mockup which can be found here: Awesome. There are still nits, but you have already made tho

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-18 Thread Tobias Kremer
On 18.06.2008, at 00:18, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 16:05]: A width of 960 pixels is the current standard Any less than a 1020px window and I get a horizontal scrollbar. That is why I noticed at all. Ah yes, that's because of the padding around

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Marcello Romani
Aristotle Pagaltzis ha scritto: * Marcello Romani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 08:50]: To "get started" I would put up a simple page with a bullet list where in a few points the reader has to learn: what is catalyst, what benefits it brings to web developement, how to install it, then point t

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 16:05]: > A width of 960 pixels is the current standard Any less than a 1020px window and I get a horizontal scrollbar. That is why I noticed at all. > I hadn't heard of jello layouts before - it seems they're very > rarely used ... Yes, and it is

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher H. Laco
My bikeshed has blue shag carpets with a disco ball and tinted windows. :-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable arch

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Ashley
On Jun 17, 2008, at 8:18 AM, J. Shirley wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 11:40]: I've started to code the site and the ongoing process is available

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread J. Shirley
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 11:40]: >> > I've started to code the site and the ongoing process is >> > available at http://www.funkreich.de/catalyst >>

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Tobias Kremer
Quoting Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 11:40]: > > I've started to code the site and the ongoing process is > > available at http://www.funkreich.de/catalyst > Hmm, that *requires* a maximised browser window on a 1024×768 > screen. I donâ

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 11:40]: > I've started to code the site and the ongoing process is > available at http://www.funkreich.de/catalyst Hmm, that *requires* a maximised browser window on a 1024×768 screen. I don’t know if it really should… how about a jello layout? > My

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Moritz Onken
The classic 2/3 column layouts have become a bit out-of-fashion recently which is why I decided against using them (which doesn't mean they don't make sense anymore). Besides, I don't see that many sub-navigation points for the Catalyst site ... I agree with the out-of-fashion 2/3 col

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Tobias Kremer
Quoting Moritz Onken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've started to code the site and the ongoing process is available at > > http://www.funkreich.de/catalyst. > Nice work! Thanks! > Some points: > - I'd prefer a layout like www.ajaxian.com where the main part is in > the middle of the page The classi

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Moritz Onken
I've started to code the site and the ongoing process is available at http://www.funkreich.de/catalyst. It's currently known to look good in Mozilla Firefox and Safari. MSIE (as always) still looks a bit odd but I think we're far from browser-optimizing the site :) Nice work! Some points:

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Tobias Kremer
Quoting Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 08:40]: > > I've incorporated some of the suggestions into the next version > > of the mockup which can be found here: > Awesome. There are still nits, but you have already made those > clear yourself

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Marcello Romani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 08:50]: > To "get started" I would put up a simple page with a bullet > list where in a few points the reader has to learn: what is > catalyst, what benefits it brings to web developement, how to > install it, then point to the first, simple tutoria

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ali M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 09:00]: > One more thing I like about the grails site is that the design > is really different! At least to me its like nothing i've seen > before ... i will never confuse the grails site for another one Honestly, I find the Grails site design quite ugly. I

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 08:40]: > I've incorporated some of the suggestions into the next version > of the mockup which can be found here: > > http://funkreich.de/catalyst/v2.png Awesome. There are still nits, but you have already made those clear yourself, and it’s a huge

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-16 Thread Marcello Romani
Tobias Kremer ha scritto: Quoting Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The other proposed layouts are making fundamental mistakes regarding color scheme choice and/or distribution of elements. I'm not a professional web designer but a blue box with a thick light green frame below a dark red header

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-16 Thread Jonathan Tweed
On 13 Jun 2008, at 15:03, Jonathan Rockway wrote: * On Fri, Jun 13 2008, Jonathan Tweed wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 13:51, Jonathan Rockway wrote: It all boils down to this. Catalyst is the only really useful Perl web framework. Perl is the only really useful language for writing web applicat

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-13 15:00]: > There is nothing worse than a committee that distorts the > artist's vision. (When everyone agrees on every detail, you get > Microsoft. Bland.) Sorry, but you don’t seem to know what you are talking about. Microsoft-style design happens

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Fri, Jun 13 2008, Jonathan Tweed wrote: > On 13 Jun 2008, at 13:51, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > >> It all boils down to this. Catalyst is the only really useful Perl >> web >> framework. Perl is the only really useful language for writing web >> applications. So people are going to use Cataly

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
Jonathan Rockway wrote: Let's spend our collective efforts doing something other than arguing about colors. Exactly. Leave the design of the site as it is and concentrate on making the the content easier to understand and use. Sprawling inconsistent self-contradictory content is still that n

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Jonathan Tweed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> On 13 Jun 2008, at 13:51, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > >> It all boils down to this. Catalyst is the only really useful Perl >> web >> framework. Perl is the only really useful language for writing web >> applications. So people are going to use Catal

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Mark Keating
On the subject of Cornfields. Hi all, just for the curious: The cornfield used in this image was found by me and the composite picture put together with one or two other Catalyst insiders in 2005. The original image had a different corn-circle - which I edited out and then we replaced it with

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Jonathan Tweed
On 13 Jun 2008, at 13:51, Jonathan Rockway wrote: It all boils down to this. Catalyst is the only really useful Perl web framework. Perl is the only really useful language for writing web applications. So people are going to use Catalyst regardless of whether the background color on the

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Thu, Jun 12 2008, Cory Watson wrote: > I've been ignoring this thread because it's a bunch of bikeshedding. Basically, I agree. Let's let the designers design. There is nothing worse than a committee that distorts the artist's vision. (When everyone agrees on every detail, you get Microsof

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-13 Thread Kieren Diment
On 13 Jun 2008, at 12:57, Cory Watson wrote: I've been ignoring this thread because it's a bunch of bikeshedding. Umm, bikeshedding is not feedback. OTOH feedback can turn into an endless sunday afternoon in the hardware store feeling suicidal about paint charts, so I kind of get your po

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Cory Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldn't resist it ... Here's something I whipped up in the last hour or > so: > > http://www.funkreich.de/catalystorg.png > > > Shall I continue my effort or is this too little too late? :) I've been ignoring this

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Devin Austin
My vote is for the crop circle one. I REALLY like that one. But incorporate the Chuck Norris title into it :-) On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12.06.2008, at 22:43, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > >> * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-12 13:00

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
On 12.06.2008, at 22:43, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-12 13:00]: I couldn't resist it ... Here's something I whipped up in the last hour or so: http://www.funkreich.de/catalystorg.png Shall I continue my effort or is this too little too late? :) I lik

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-12 13:00]: > I couldn't resist it ... Here's something I whipped up in the > last hour or so: > > http://www.funkreich.de/catalystorg.png > > It's nothing revolutionary. Of course, the content needs quite > a bit of work and the graphics are not very pol

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
On 12.06.2008, at 20:22, Simon Wilcox wrote: > Matt S Trout wrote: >> I was thinking about yours but can I get away with asking for all of the >> above? Given myself and kieren both find most of the other sites >> objectionable it'd be nice to see why you prefer them. I like the 60s/70s style of t

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
On 12.06.2008, at 20:22, Simon Wilcox wrote: Matt S Trout wrote: I was thinking about yours but can I get away with asking for all of the above? Given myself and kieren both find most of the other sites objectionable it'd be nice to see why you prefer them. I like the 60s/70s style of the

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Michael Burns
On 12-Jun-08, at 8:12 AM, Matt S Trout wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:48:55AM +0200, Tobias Kremer wrote: Once again, sorry for being so negative but this just shows how much I care about Catalyst gaining more attention. Enough to say you hate them all but not enough to try and say wh

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Simon Wilcox
Matt S Trout wrote: I was thinking about yours but can I get away with asking for all of the above? Given myself and kieren both find most of the other sites objectionable it'd be nice to see why you prefer them. I think you're not the target audience that those sites are trying to reach. As s

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Matt S Trout
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:00:04PM +0200, Tobias Kremer wrote: > Point taken! I didn't mean to insult anyone! I'm sorry if that was the > impression I gave. Either way it's now corrected :) > I find it highly problematic and cumbersome to discuss layouts from a > graphical > point of view. One c

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
> So it's subjective - the whole point of this was to provide -feedback- so > the designers could understand what people did and didn't like. Telling us > you'd be worried about Catalyst's future if we used any without a single > bit of constructive criticism is ... well, frankly, completely useles

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Matt S Trout
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:48:55AM +0200, Tobias Kremer wrote: > I don't want to sound rude but I don't like any of the proposed > designs. To be honest, from a stilistic point of view they all look > worse than the current Catalyst frontpage. They all pale in comparison > to nearly EVERY other MVC

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Wed, Jun 11 2008, Gabriel Vieira wrote: > Hahaha. Nice! I didn't see that. > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Devin Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 12 Jun 2008, at 07:23, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Mat

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
Quoting Tobias Kremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The other proposed layouts are making fundamental mistakes regarding > color scheme choice and/or distribution of elements. I'm not a professional > web > designer but a blue box with a thick light green frame below a dark red > header > and everything b

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Robin Berjon
On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:40, Simon Wilcox wrote: Kieren Diment wrote: Subjectively speaking, I think that all the sites you mention above are horribly ugly with the exception of the rubyonrails one which is quite nice. Mainly the other sites lose me in a technicolour yawn (http://www.urban

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
Quoting Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 12 Jun 2008, at 17:48, Tobias Kremer wrote: > > worse than the current Catalyst frontpage. They all pale in comparison > > to nearly EVERY other MVC framework's web site. Look at > > djangoproject.com, > > cakephp.org, symfony-project.org, even rubyo

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Simon Wilcox
Kieren Diment wrote: Subjectively speaking, I think that all the sites you mention above are horribly ugly with the exception of the rubyonrails one which is quite nice. Mainly the other sites lose me in a technicolour yawn (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=technicolor+yawn) of

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Kieren Diment
On 12 Jun 2008, at 17:48, Tobias Kremer wrote: I don't want to sound rude but I don't like any of the proposed designs. To be honest, from a stilistic point of view they all look worse than the current Catalyst frontpage. They all pale in comparison to nearly EVERY other MVC framework's web sit

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Tobias Kremer
On 11.06.2008, at 23:26, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Christopher H. Laco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-11 23:05]: >> I'd much rather see a footer more like this one: >> >> http://movabletype.org/ > > ++ > > That’s exactly the kind of “what does the first-time visitor > expect to see/do here?”-dr

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-12 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, > (1) http://www.browsing.co.uk/cat > I am well aware of this - the top 'tempter' paragraph is way too ugly > and on this monitor makes the text pretty difficult to read, but I was > on a too tight a schedule to do anything about this. The bottom half > of the page has had very little ti

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-11 Thread Gabriel Vieira
Hahaha. Nice! I didn't see that. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Devin Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like it for the mere fact that in the title it says "Chuck Norris's > Framework" > > :-) > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 12 Jun 2008,

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-11 Thread Simon Elliott
(1) http://www.browsing.co.uk/cat This is the one I would pick, even though it is bland. It looks like any other current site. But within the current line-up I would consider that a strength… I am well aware of this - the top 'tempter' paragraph is way too ugly and on this monitor makes the t

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-11 Thread Devin Austin
I like it for the mere fact that in the title it says "Chuck Norris's Framework" :-) On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2008, at 07:23, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-11 22:05]: >> >>> (1) http://ww

Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-11 Thread Kieren Diment
On 12 Jun 2008, at 07:23, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-11 22:05]: (1) http://www.browsing.co.uk/cat This is the one I would pick, even though it is bland. It looks like any other current site. But within the current line-up I would consider that a st

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Christopher H. Laco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-11 23:05]: > I'd much rather see a footer more like this one: > > http://movabletype.org/ ++ That’s exactly the kind of “what does the first-time visitor expect to see/do here?”-driven design (by which I mean the “how it works” not the “how it lo

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread

2008-06-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
I’m going to preface this by saying sorry for being so negative, as I know how attached people can get to their creative output… please keep in mind that I am making these comments in the interest of improving Cat’s marketing. And I have to agree with Gabriel that none of these would really attract