On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 05:32, Christian Schaller wrote: > Hi, > Before I start adding lots of content to the page I thought I should > here if anyone here didn't like the look I made based on the gIDE page > Dave had made. > The current draft can be seen here (only insite link working is gIDE > one). > http://www.linuxrising.com/devtools/ Hi. I like most of the design of the page, but I have a few suggestions for improvements: * The lines in the navigation column on the left, though nice looking, makes it hard to read the captions on the different sections. I'm thinking of "Information", "Components", and "Links". I think that either these captions should have a different coloured background, or the vertical lines should be of another, "lighter" colour. Something closer to the lines on the right than to the lines of the left. * When you switch between subsections (in this case only the main page and the gide page, but I'm assuming this is representative for the design), the entire page, including navigation column and title graphics is reloaded. Even if the graphics is cached, this causes the page to "flicker" (at least in my mozilla) when you shift through the pages. Is it possible to avoid reloading anything but the new parts? (Don't know much about webdesign myself, so I have no idea about what's possible and what is not, but I belive I have seen pages with that behaviour). * I don't think you should link from a page to itself in the navigation bar. Rather, the current page should be highlighted and not a link. The highlighting because the navigation bar then can be used to show your current location on the site. * Could the title graphics either expand to the full page with or blend into the background rather than stop about a centimeter before the end of the text? If it can't expand, should the text at least not be stopped before the end of the tile? I realize that the title graphics could be changed due to Dave's objections, but if the new design resembles the current I think you should take this into account. These are only suggestions. I am no longer involved with any dev. tools nor am I a user of them so I don't really have a say in this, but you can think about it and take what you can use. /mailund -- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe, "Technology Review" (1992)
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