Hiya Dan, Thanks for taking time to go through the sites and provide detailed comments, much appreciated! I copy Glynn and Dan on this reply because they really need the .com feedback and are the main contacts who can make the changes you've suggested. They will also know if feedback like this should be posted to the .com forums and if so, where. My further replies on your .org feedback inline below.
Dan Price wrote: > 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" I think this item needs to be included in the larger conversation coming regarding parity between the two sites and overall branding. So, I'll put this topic of colors into the roadmap for the future of .org because we want to preserve the conventions you worked so hard on while also freshening up the site after three years. And color palette is central to the many issues we'll face as we move ahead. > 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. I don't think there is anything critically important about keeping the new blue color. > Normally this isn't needed because the border edging and > the background are the same color, forming a natural pad of a > few px. > Derek is out this week, so he'll respond on the edging when he returns. > 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 > I know we can do both, but I thank you for your time to review and call out some of the breakage we knew we'd create in the splash-page-launch-firedrill. Keep it coming! -Michelle _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
