Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Karsten Otto
Hi Reed, Nice work! Regarding the boxes in #1, is there any way to make the round corners anti-aliased? It looks a bit weird in contrast to to the smooth backgroudn image and the anti-aliased VOS logo. Regarding #2, I think mouseover-popups are not a good idea for large things such as scree

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread S Mattison
index2.html Definitely. >From the standpoint of a webdesigner (You know, I don't get paid 700$ a week for nothing), I like the accessibility of the site. The menu options are always onscreen, the design is nice, and the scrolling (think; mouse scroll wheel) is still FAST, on Firefox, on a 1.5Ghz,

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
Reed Hedges wrote: > Here are two ideas I had for a new website design. Both are rough sketches. > \ > 2. http://interreality.org/~reed/tmp/iro/index2.html I made a few small changes to this one, trying a different background image (the branches one is just to show the concept, it's a terrible

Re: [vos-d] Updated "Road Map" on Wiki

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
reed wrote: > > I updated the "Road Map" page on the Wiki to reflect S5 plans. Pete, please > correct it if it's a bit off. This is just a general guideline, we don't > really know yet when the first S5 release will be, or whether it will be a > "1.0" release or a beta or testing prerelease t

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
Karsten Otto wrote: > Hi Reed, > > Nice work! Regarding the boxes in #1, is there any way to make the > round corners anti-aliased? It looks a bit weird in contrast to to > the smooth backgroudn image and the anti-aliased VOS logo. Yeah. The round corners are a hack using little tiny colored

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Reed Hedges
Lalo Martins wrote: > I like #1. When I did a mockup a long long time ago, I went with a > similar idea, and I think it's still valid; the metaphor being that > you're looking at a few "flat" widgets floating in a 3d space. The main thing I don't like is it's too dark and black, which might sc

Re: [vos-d] Updated "Road Map" on Wiki

2008-02-19 Thread HEBLACK, J
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:14 -0500, Reed Hedges wrote: > reed wrote: > > > > I updated the "Road Map" page on the Wiki to reflect S5 plans. Pete, > > please correct it if it's a bit off. This is just a general guideline, we > > don't really know yet when the first S5 release will be, or whethe

Re: [vos-d] Website design ideas

2008-02-19 Thread Lalo Martins
Also spracht Reed Hedges (Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:11:26 -0500): > I did want the background to look very CGI, could even turn it into flat > unsmothed polygons or put a wireframe on it. I'll agree a starfield is the "lazy" way to get the effect that we were both going for ;-) maybe a different scene