Re: new comp

[Martin Lee <mlee andrews edu>]

> Dynamic menus are ok with me as long as all the code is client side so
> that there's no refresh of the page when I use the back button and as
> long as text-only browsers can still make sense of the page.

I was thinking that we could do server-side browser detection initially, 
and then return either a DHTML menu(for netscape, IE etc...), or a static 
text menu (for lynx etc). Furthur browser customization can be done 
client side with javascript.

> I don't want to impact your artistic sense too much, but I'm a believer
> in having links obvious by color, if not underlined. Is there some
> scheme by which you can indicate links? For example, how do I know I can
> click on the New Software without going over there and running my mouse
> over them?

My bad on that one. I totally agree that the links should be a different 
color or underlined. (in most cases anyway) I always do that once I get 
to the HTML stage and I guess I forgot to do that here. I'll have to 
include that in the next comp I put out. Look for links to be underlined 
(for the right side area), and colored and underlined when inline.

> Any thought to variations for the different areas? I like the look and
> structure of what you've got going here for the front page and would
> like to see you (the list?) develop it. How might this be adapted to the
> front page of Developer, Foundation, or Projects? (And BTW, can we all
> agree to find something better than "GNOME: Computing Made Easy"? Maybe
> "GNOME: Cool Computing" or "I GNU you'd like GNOME!" Heh, let's have a
> contest.)

I don't have anything against "GNOME: Computing Made Easy". Granted, it 
could be better, but I think it does a fairly good job of portraying an 
aspect of GNOME in a single phrase. If we come up with a better slogan, 
fine, but I don't think we should change something that is already 
associated with GNOME just because a new one would be cool.