On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With all due respect, all of the designs you've posted look like _weblog_ > templates, and that doesn't seem appropriate to me for a software website. > One of the things I most dislike about the weblog format is the fixed-width > centre column and the large tracks of wasted space down the sides; although > the official site is certainly "bare bones" (some would say "ugly") at the > moment, at least the information density is high and there isn't any wasted > space. That is most probably due to that the templates googlepages offer are mostly aimed at such weblogs. I think the suggestions are not just for layout but also for color (which is very important, to me at least, when deciding whether a webpage is 'damn ugly' or 'quite nice'). Also I think that the main page should not contain more information than fits in one 'screen'. That is, there should be no scrollbar on 'sensible' (say, above 1024*768) resolutions. To me a site feels 'overfull' if it's mainpage has a scrolbarr. Instead, I think the mainpage should be a portal to other parts of the website, instead of... well... everything-crammed-on-one-page-so that.... so that what? What purpose does it serve to put all information, ungrouped, not easy to find, and as such chaotic, on one page? Anyway... </rant> Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
