Just a few quick comments: The page is looking nicely improved. I like that it is mostly visible from within a single screenful, with minimal scrolling necessary.
Most of my complaints probably pertain the the icon bar. There's the strange mouseover growth behavior that others have mentioned. Maybe it's supposed to look like the MacOSX dock, but it really just comes off as jarring. I think the usual thing to do here is some kind of highlighting (e.g. switch between the plain icon and a version that is glowing with yellow or such). Of the icons, all use transparency except the Windows icon, which has a solid white background. I can't see the need for a Java section any more than I can see the need for C++, Qt, Python, or JSP sections. The technology behind the software isn't a significant piece of information to the user, so I think Duke and the Java section should just go. We don't have any Palm software (though I do think that PalmBiblePlus and UniBible should be linked to from our Handhelds section). Since we don't have any Palm software, it's a bit confusing to have an icon of a Palm V representing that section. I'd recommend either a generic, unidentifieable handheld or that plus a phone. Even an iPhone might work, since we do plan to support that. "The Sword Project" in the menu bar is still not cased correctly (SWORD). In general, I'm afraid I don't care for the menu bar. I don't think "Read the Bible" should have been demoted to the sidebar. I don't think the news section belongs within the CrossWire site as opposed to the Sword site (but we can discuss that in IRC). I don't like with widening that came with going from 2 lines to 1. And I think there is some slightly non-standard ordering of the menu bar items. The top of the page also has a lot of poorly-employed space. I know you didn't touch anything above the menu bar, but I wonder whether we could use that space a little better. We may want to shorten/widen the logo, design a more modern-looking logo, or even nuke the uppermost burgundy bar. We could potentially center the logo on the page and flank it with 3-4 menu items along the page borders, e.g.: Home Volunteers News CROSSWIRE Publishers About Us Contact --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
