New website design coming (Page 3 of 9)

[Edit: Please refer screenshot. Bullets here correspond to the numbers in the screenshot. Bad GIMP work. Please to excuse... ]

Further feedback from me:

http://ompldr.org/vNjk2YQ/2010-11-21--1 … _scrot.png

1. Monolithic menu seems to be lost as random text rather than show up actually as a menu. I had mentioned this in my first round of feedback.
2. The pagination again is lost. In the 'light' version, there was a clear distinction with a black border. I guess just inverting that with a white border here would start sucking but some sort of shade of lighter grey might do the trick.
3. The border color used doesn't really seem to function as demarcation point for various sections of the page. Whole page looks like a single wall of text. I hear folks say 'u r a no good noob.... and all' and maybe I am but the philosophy of @#! (debian crunchbang) should not go overboard on being a anti 'light' by being twilight dark... midnight dark is still ok (one can see clear boundaries during midnight as against twilight where boundaries are fuzzy and illusionary... campers might know what i mean)
4. The Quoted text gives the appearance of the main text and the actual text becomes understated. Even for a site where understatement is an agenda, this seems to have a negative effect. Ultimately, human eyes are trained to identify positives (as in photograph print) as against negatives (as in photograph negatives).

@Corenominal

   Request: please do seriously consider providing an alternative widely used stylesheet option. I really like @#! as a philosophy, as a working OS, as a no nonsense OS and I keep getting back to the forums for the infinite support the community has and is capable of providing. I don't want to get bogged down by issues such as differentiating target text from the background and utility text for most part of time.

   I know I'm being rough around the edges partly because of my writing skills but mainly because I just wanted to get the communication clear without ambiguity.

Last edited by aravinthrk (2010-11-21 15:19:14)

Some points:

• The forum posts get rendered to a fixed width panel always. This might be intended but it has the effect of a lot of (vertical) scrolling if I use a small window, and a lot of wasted space in fullscreen (or with a big screen)

• The borders between the panels (posts) are nearly invisible. This is not so bad for the ones between posts, but the panels at the top and bottom are hard to recognize as panels on their own.

• The pages at "Active Topics", "New Posts" etc. from the links at the top of the forum pages have a lot of line feed (is that the word for "space between lines"?). I would put them a little closer, especially as these pages are meant to give an overview i.e. a lot of info in small space.

I noticed that too, in Chrome. Are you using Chrome or Chromium? It does not seem to be a problem in my Iceweasel.

I like the new style for the Home page (though the left, darker screenshot looks strange on that background), and for the Blog (which is perfectly readable), but for a more structured place like the Forum I don't know... I'm not sure I could follow a long thread, I really feel lost.

Thanks. I have applied a fix, hopefully.

@corenominal (new avatar!)
I like the new design, but it would be even better (IMHO) with dark grey text on light grey backround. Monochromatic smileys could remain.
Take a look at hup.hu, how easy can be to read it for long long hours: http://hup.hu/node/95581
I'm not suggesting you to mimic hup.hu design, but please think about the idea of using a less darker backround or a somewhat friendlier contrast. As I've noticed many people just strongly dislike dark backrounds on websites.

Atm only thing that I don't like is the rolling numbers under the barcode. Other than that I have to say I quite like this

HANNA (without "h" in the end) likes green and #!
Also know as ultraturquoise online / #! last.fm / #! DeviantART / U / Q

I think this one looks a bit better:

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How do you think?

Is that Ubuntu brown?

Also thank you corenominal for the fix.