Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:28:46 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Today's Work Message-ID: <1109982526.3926.144.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050304185839.GA77221@freebsdmall.com> References: <1109957682.3926.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050304185839.GA77221@freebsdmall.com>
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On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 10:58 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:34:42PM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > I'm through for the day. The following has been done in my Perforce > > branch (and a full build is running so that it will be available at > > http://dragonfly.the-bofh.org/~dodell/en/index.html) > > > > Hi Devon, this looks much better. It is quite nice. I think the > layout is a strong improvement, and the CSS drop downs are exactly as > I was thinking. > > > o Removed the left navigation column and put > > contents in a `dropdown' menu up top. This > > menu could be fixed up to look a bit nicer... > > Ideas? > > I get a little jitter when I use the dropdown menu with Opera on > FreeBSD. There are still a couple issues with the dropdown menus as people have plainly shown (on and off list). These are still a WIP. > > o Moved news and press to the bottom of the > > main content. The main content could use a > > change. > > > > o Moved icons under left bar; they look better > > there IMO. > > Yes they do look better there. Is it feasible to get rid of some of them, though? Do you guys at FreeBSD Mall have an updated logo? > > o Stylized the footer. > > This looks great. > > > o Made two separate color themes for the site. > > More themes can be made styling the site in > > pretty much any way imaginable. > > I like the logo on the second level pages, such as : > > http://dragonfly.the-bofh.org/~dodell/en/docs.html > > It looks nice because the logo is integrated with the top navigation > bar. I agree. Again, I think we'll have to wait for the logo contest to finish before we can put anything definitive there. I hope it's not something that we have to design around/ > On the front page, there is still too much open space in the upper > left around the logo. It seems juxtaposed by the navigation bar > instead of integrated. Maybe if the logo were somehow connected to > the top navigation bar then it would look a little better in my > opinion. I'll see what I can do to make this more fluid. Chris, this logo / bar combination is your work, do you have any ideas? > > I expected this version to cut down on page size a bit, but it hasn't as > > much as I had hoped. The page is only 3K smaller at the moment, and the > > stylesheet adds an extra 4K. It should be possible to remove some > > unnecessary things and save a bit of bandwidth as well :) > > Keep up the good work. This is my favorite mock up that I have seen > so far. Even if others think we must stick with a red/orange theme, > your layout work would be a nice improvement. > > - Murray Well, I really want to stress that while I've done the cleaning up, the colors and the logo (and pretty much the whole idea re: the design) is from Chris. Any differences have been minor tweaks. The great thing about the CSS now is that if there are color preferences, these are easily implemented. --Devon
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