First, thanks for taking the time to work on a new site. Overall I think
the new design is pretty slick. I am not even remotely a designer so I
don't have solutions to my critiques but here are the couple of things
that popped in my head. First are the fonts, my initial thought was "Is
that Comic Sans?!". :) My second thought (possibly related to the first)
was it looks a little toy-ish. My thought is that the CouchDB site
should represent the roubust, durable datastore that Couch is.
-Joe
On 4/14/10 11:03 AM, Adam Kocoloski wrote:
This is very nice. I think Myriad was a good font for the logo, though.
I do like the "of the web" quote from Jacob, but now we've got CouchDB "for the Web" in one place,
and "of the web" in contrast to "for the web" in the quote. Perhaps it's best to just have the
short old-school thing after all?
Below the fold things are a bit wordy. I definitely like the extra space on the right
for the 5 bullet points. Not sure what would be best on the left. Maybe the more
detailed links under "Get It/See It/Learn It/Support It" should be down there?
But I'm no designer.
One other thing I really liked about maadin's earlier proposal was that it gave
the wiki the same look-n-feel as the main site. I don't know what we're
ultimately planning on doing re: docs -- tisba has done a yeoman's job
gardening the wiki, there's that couchdocs thing on github, I heard jchris was
working on a couchapp -- but whatever we do, it would be cool to apply this
same theme to it. Cheers,
Adam
On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Warner Onstine wrote:
I must say that I really like this design!
-warner
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:01 AM, James Fisher<[email protected]> wrote:
I invite you all to http://github.com/eegg/couchdb_web -- the state of
things at present. I've HTMLized the sketches quite faithfully, and it
renders fine in Firefox (3.5.9) and Konqueror. Opinions, please.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:35 PM, J Chris Anderson<[email protected]> wrote:
On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:25 AM, James Fisher wrote:
OK, I'm still at the messing-around-in-Inkscape stage, but this is how
things stand (ignore the schema diagram thing, which will obviously be
redone): http://i43.tinypic.com/23wsapl.jpg
Hopefully I'll have quelled some people:
* lighter, less saturated cyan
* cushions obliterated; I quite like the new simple text approach with
extremely ample air around them
* logotype still in Candela, but with the extra padding removed
* sponsor logos removed
* content section widened to full width
Comments?
I think I prefer the cushions (even if they were a bit cute)& the 2 column
layout. If my copy won't fit in the space on the 2 column layout, we can
always make it shorter. I for one don't think there's anything wrong with
having a long column.
(Picturing the previous layout in my head) Perhaps the schematic could go
just below the cushions, so that the cushions + schematic are column A, and
the longer copy is column B.
Or if not cushions, the links to the sections (without cushions).
I think the sparse header of the previous layout is part of what makes it.
Nothing but the quote and the lamp... very classy. Adding all the links up
there breaks the appeal a bit.
Good work on the colors. I'm still missing the old logo-font. There are
fully typographed versions of the logo available here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/supplement/logo/
Cheers,
Chris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Julian Moritz<
[email protected]>wrote:
Hi,
David Coallier schrieb:
<snip>
Rest assured no magenta will be introduced :)
I've already lightened the cyan considerably. I don't think it's a
fundamentally toyish colour -- see e.g.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ palette.
After my harsh criticism of the "couch you'd never buy" earlier, I've
completely turned face -- I think (hope) I've put it in a visual
context
in
which it's at home.
<snip>
I have to say that the design with the lamp, I quite like :) Sure I'm
not a designer or anything so my input will be quite limited, however
even though a bit cyanish it looks quite decent :)
I'm not a designer too and my opinion is not professional one, but I do
like the design too. The one thing I like more with the old design was
the sharp font face of the logo. I'm sorry but I can't help: the new
font face is too comic style in my eyes.
regards
julian
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