Re: Guadec Website

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="MArk Finlay">

> Just went to register for the guadec and noticed that guadec.org is now
> sporting a shiny new design. IIRC it is one of the designs proposed to
> this list for gnome.org.
> 
> Maybe it's just a reuse of a design, or maybe it's a testbed for the new
> gnome website *conspiritorial wink*

Sadly, it's just an shtml-backport hack, but yeah, there's lots of design
bits from the new site in there.

It's a combination of designs from radagast, digitect and myself.

> Anyway it looks really cool. I'd just suggest that the navigation links at
> the top only be underlined onmouseover

I disagree. They are already 'discoloured' links, purely as a design choice.
Removing the underlines takes away the last commonly recognisable evidence
that they are links. I think this is an important issue for usability and
accessibility.

> and that a link to gnomesupport.org be added to the navigation links as
> well.

Not to those main links, but it will be given prominent linkage on the
to-be-published differently-designed gnome.org front page. It's not a
critical point of navigation for the entire GNOME site, so it's not
appropriate in the masthead.

> Also it could so with some testing at low resolutions and/or
> with large fonts: the text doens't wrap very attractively.

Which bits in particular? I tested with 800x600 and it looks ok. That's
pretty much the lower bound of what's useful to support (at least in non
specialised html format).

> Hope to see it on more gnome.org sites soon....

Coming. Soon. :-)

- Jeff

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