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Wow, took a quick peek and everything looks much nicer. |
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A couple of things (here it goes): |
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> When I saw the e-mail icon next to the print icon, my first |
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> thought was that it was a "send-a-link" button, since that's |
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> pretty common on news sites. Having it represent a mailto: |
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> link instead might be potentially confusing. Anybody else think that? |
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It is misleading and counter intuitive. The original reference was for |
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"send-a-link," but to do that it requires javascript and hence that's |
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probably why it was changed to a static mailto: link. |
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> There are a few other minor changes as well. Link colors have |
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> been made more consistant: purple on white for content areas |
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> and white on purple in the menu bar. All links turn green on |
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> :hover. These color combinations pass the color-blind test, |
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> look really good and are consistant. |
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The green was intended for on the dark purple background on the top bar or |
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bolded text headings. It is not intended for unbold non-heading text on |
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white background or on light purple background (especially hard to see, e.g. |
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hover ad links on the ad bar). Also, the ad images have dotted underlines |
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under them, they shouldn't. |
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> The top level menu (main, planet, forums, etc...) had an |
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> issue. The green arrow designates which site you are on. If |
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> you are on planet.gentoo.org then PLANET would be first in |
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> line with the green arrow. I spaced the first word out more |
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> to make it more obvious. The link colors were changed to |
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> white with green hover to be consistant with the site-wide |
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> color scheme and also to pass the color blind test. |
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Hmm...we shouldn't changed the menu order on the users. It creates |
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confusion and slows down the workflow because they'd have to double-check |
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the position of the links before clicking due to them changing. How about, |
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current site = white link, other sites = dimmer (i.e. light purple). Also |
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the green arrow doesn't vertically align with the text as in the reference, |
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not sure why merely changing colors would also change the positioning. The |
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font looks a tad different, maybe that's why. |
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> I like this version much better. It's all coming together, and |
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> I give my thumbs up for a release of this as soon as the minor |
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> bugs are worked out. (Not like it matters, but as an average gentoo |
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> user, I applaud you, and everyone else!) |
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> Yes, let's see this before X-Mas 2005! It would be a nice X-mas |
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> present to the community! |
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I'd strong advise against releasing an unpolished product and patching up |
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known-bugs later (i.e. pull a Microsoft). Since this is a major event, |
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there will undoubtly be additional coverage and it would not look good if we |
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launched it at sub par quality (Gentoo critics would totally capitalize on |
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it). |
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> Chapters are the green and a larger font size and sections |
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> are dark purple and a little smaller. It looks good at the |
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> moment and (more or |
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> less) matches the reference design. |
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Looks good, my only concern with this and the other color changes is where |
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the colors came from. Are they part of the color scheme? The dark purple |
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sub headings, while the text is of higher contrast (is it necessary?), it |
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over shadows the green heading (even though the green heading is larger), |
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this is because the apparent brightness is inconsistent. The purple in the |
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reference looks more balanced. The headings (green, purple, and doc heading |
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at top in the light purple box) could be a little bigger as our default text |
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is bigger. |
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On the front page, there's a light purple space below between the content |
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area and the footer bar. To the right of the line where it says "#103610 - |
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yaboot-static claims incorrectly that /proc/device-tree broken is in the |
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2.6.12 kernel series", the ad bar is shifted by 1 pixel to the right (this |
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is barely noticeable but very odd). |
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The front page looks over crowded, I think this is mostly a spacing issue |
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(or lack of). Giving the purple bar headings a padding and putting more |
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space between each news item may help a little temporarily. The "More News" |
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link needs to be more prominent, right now it just looks like part of the |
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last news item. |
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The table borders might look better in a purple (right now it appears black |
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or very dark gray). |
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The XML buttons have dotted underlines, within a sentence it looks okay, but |
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on its own it looks strange (the underline sticks right to the bottom of it, |
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essentially same problem as ad images). This is probably a line height |
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issue. |
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The ad column's purple doesn't quite match the light gray portion on the |
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footer which connects to it. The purple looks nice too, I can probably |
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change the footer graphic later to match the purple. |
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Overall good work Curtis, this is coming together nicely! The progress has |
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been huge in the last couple of weeks. |
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Aaron |
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