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Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page
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--- Quote from: macku on April 22, 2009, 04:39:23 AM ---Inside this *blob* (block maybe?) is Support column with Forum link. The same link is in top drop-down menu under support.
In my opinion is good to have this block on every site and have ex. quick access to last announcements. Now rockbox is not only main and wiki, but also some other pages.
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I wasn't attempting to allege that there weren't (2?) links to the forums, just that they seemed "buried" to me, and was curious if any one else found them occult to a quick glance.
--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on April 22, 2009, 04:45:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: macku on April 22, 2009, 04:39:23 AM ---// UP: RSS icon is rss link. Text is to normal page. [RSS](feed) Subversion(table with changes)
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Well that's all well and good if people already know that, but to me it's quite counter-intuitive.
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I, too, didn't realize the icons and text went different places. I think I would have figured it out right quick, though, if the demo page had in fact been fully operational. ;)
cool_walking_:
I think an icon to the left of text implies that the text and icon are considered one object. However, if I saw something like "Project news (RSS)", I would be much more likely to consider them "separate, but related".
Part of it is that mousing over one piece would show that the other does not get highlighted/underlined, and thus is separate, whereas with the current design, I just think the image isn't highlighted because it's an image and people tend not to highlight image links on mouseover. Maybe it would help if the RSS icon lightened when moused over (but not when the text is moused over).
Zagor:
--- Quote from: macku on April 21, 2009, 12:37:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zagor on April 21, 2009, 08:49:06 AM ---2. Why is there a left-side menu in wiki? And why the heavy bottom blob?
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This menu was created before top dropdown menu. I can cut it away. Todo // Edit: by blob you mean? Please make screenshot and mark it.
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"The blob" is the big blue field in the bottom, as GodEater said. It doesn't belong on the wiki pages.
In general, putting the same information in several places is not a good way to get it noticed. It just makes the pages more noisy and confusing. For this reason I also don't like the links in the footer. Those links are already present in the top menu.
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--- Quote from: Zagor on April 21, 2009, 08:49:06 AM ---4. The white-on-lightgray top menu is still too discrete. It blends in with the browser chrome and I think many people will have trouble finding it.
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Better proposition? Black? What then with black Rockbox logo?
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I can think of two variants to test:
1. Black background, as in the footer. In this case use the "complete" Rockbox logo with yellow background. This of course also requires changing all text colours. However a black header and footer makes the wiki pages (and other non-front non-colourful pages) very stark black/white.
2. Lightblue background. Allows keeping the text colour. Perhaps the footer should be blue too, then. It provides a little more colour/life to non-front pages and keeps a familiarity connection to the old design.
--- Quote from: macku on April 21, 2009, 12:37:18 PM ---About fonts size. I checked it ones again on different browsers. On FF, Opera, Chrome and IE8 size is the same. Mismatch occur only on IE7.
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That may be the case in Windows, but in Linux I get different font sizes in Opera and Firefox. I bet mac users get different sizes too. This is a known issue with css font sizing, solved by using pixel sizes instead. One pixel is always one pixel, on every operating system and every browser.
Most of my "complaints" are just minor quibbles and doesn't have to be fixed by you. If we fix the gray top bar and the font sizing, I think the design is good enough to implement. Then we can keep tweaking the live page instead.
BdN3504:
please tell say stuff like that in the first place! i had to redo everything!
macku:
Update
Say good-bay to grey top with image based menu text and welcome blue with normal text.
Rss feed icons are now highlighted after mouse is over them.
Deleted menu on bottom bar.
Font sizes are in pixels.
@BdN3504: I'm most forget to mention it. Sorry and thanks for new images.
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