I spent some time going through the web properties in the wake of the
launch events of the last couple of weeks.
Here are some comments:
Sure would be nice if there were some home-page buttons/badges
available.
Opensolaris.com: the HTML does not seem to be consistent
across the home page, the get page, the forums (forums.opensolaris.org)
page, and the share page, with respect to the top-of-the-page banner.
These appear differently for me on these different pages.
forums.opensolaris.com page seems to lack the site-wide page
footer graphics, including the Sun logo.
Favicon for forums.opensolaris.com seems dated, and doesn't match
the one for www.opensolaris.com.
Table column header blue color for forums.opensolaris.com seems
arbitrary and off-brand. Ditto for the color blue of the links
on this page.
Heading over to opensolaris.org, On the new landing pages, such as:
opensolaris.org/learn.html: There is a new thematic color being
introduced, a blue color we haven't used before, in the righthand column
for callout boxes like "Learning Materials" and "Current Downloads" and
the HTML for this isn't really following the conventions I set
elsewhere, and so to me at least looks not right. Whatever color is
used for the head of the box should also be used for its outline. This
is done correctly in the first box on the page. But not subsequently.
I would suggest switching to back to the secondary or tertiary branded
blue from the palette, and correcting the font color to something other
than bright white, or using the green we developed elsewhere. The
blue, #005595, appears nowhere else on the site that I am aware of,
and is a little too saturated for my taste and for our current
palette for .org.
If keeping the blue color is critically important, then more
work is needed to slighly left-pad the title text in the callout
box. Normally this isn't needed because the border edging and
the background are the same color, forming a natural pad of a
few px.
I know this seems like nit-picking, but I invested countless hours
of fiddling with different designs way back at the launch, and there
is a method to the madness.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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