Wow, cool.
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 20:59 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Although I am not 100% happy with the look (needs more
cowbell/bling!),
I do think the theme addresses some of my long time usability nags with
our current theme (the placement of the account preferences always
bugged me, for example).
You took care of one that has long bugged me, the content getting tucked
under the right nav bar. I tested a table layout, and it worked great:
http://wiki.linuxgrrl.com/KarstenWade/TableTest
I'm very very very happy with that look. I also like how the text wraps
around the nav element, as seen here;
http://wiki.linuxgrrl.com/MairinDuffy
I was also looking to come up with a style that
would fit in nicely on another CMS, so maybe we could use the wiki for
being a wiki and have a CMS that is managed more carefully for
non-contributors looking to learn more about Fedora - see the navbar in
the mocks? (not in the theme yet)
+1 Yes, this design separates the Wiki-ness in a way that we can use it
for multiple faces. Perhaps the Edit etc. tools can be a general tools
area where the Web-app specific tools are displayed.
I notice the "More Actions:" drop-down is missing; is that intentional?
Perhaps it could sneak back into the right-side menu? Or does it belong
with the other action tools?
I figured I would send this out so more people knew about it (folks
have
been helping me out with it this weekend in #fedora-admin). If anybody
has ideas on how to improve it (especially bling-wise :) ) let's discuss it!
One thing that is bothering my eyes is the way the Edit et al tools
bounce when moused-over. The cool highlighting (I like) makes the other
elements shift out of the way when it is activated (I don't like).
The table of contents [[TableOfContents]] is a little plain/unadorned.
It could use something to make it stand out just a bit. Faint border
around it? I'd also like to see the sub-headers not get so much leading
space.
One thing I wonder ... the color of the general paragraph and header
font is a medium gray. I've heard about some advantages to doing that,
and it looks fine for me. I'm wondering how it looks for people with
worse vision than mine. I reckon Paul Frields saw this already, and he
is usually one of my bellwethers in this regard.
Formatting example:
http://wiki.linuxgrrl.com/KarstenWade/FormattingTest
Other feature ideas ...
* Use some of the banner space to display the Fedora News feed; we're
going to be doing a more regular update (daily?), so the content would
be fresher.
* Replace the search with a fancy, AJAX search (with an elegant failure
method) that searches across all Fedora websites. Maybe the fancy AJAX
allows for inline filtering of searches, etc.
cheers - Karsten
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