Fwd: Tuning the GNOME Product template/page



Okay, I'm gonna be serious now. I agree with Quim that the Products page needs a heavy make-up, but I knew it would. What I'm more concerned about is functionality: the look part shouldn't be hard.

Speaking of the look part, I think we should need to fix the following "visual bugs" (not really bugs, more... underimplementation) that actually are present in wgo. I made up this little list by taking Mairin's mockup and putting it side to side with my Firefox window.

1. Upper black bar: notice how the thin vertical line beside "Home" is much more long than the one beside "News". That is a bug I thought I have solved at one time, and is because the line is applied as background to the <li>, and they don't have the correct height (and their background so starts at the wrong height and gets cut after a few pixels)
2. Tabs: they need to be bigger. Bigger font, more padding in all the directions (the text is getting claustrophobic in there). Also, the template already gives the correct "active" class to tabs, and the CSS doesn't implement it (I love how the link color gets blue on the active tab in Mairin mockup). Needs to be fixed
3. The tertiary navigation bar: looked bigger and shinier in Mairin's mockup. Here, I fear we will have to give up on bigger since we're already low on screen real estate but, I guess we can do something on the shiny front. And here too, we miss the active spot CSS integration.
4. Last, that slightly vanishing grey background under the tertiary nav just goes down a little too much, if you compare the proportions with those in Mairin's mockups. It also goes under the content, where it generates a funny effect (part of it gets superseded by the white background of the content)

Note, I am not criticizing anyone's work here (cause if we look at the code I wrote for PloneSoftwareCenter, I better shut up). Just doing a comparison (okay, I know we can't be pixel identical, but still..). And in my opinion, our implementation loses 60% of Mairin's mockup visual impact.

I'm willing to take up task 1 and get it done asap, and after that, well, we'll see ;).

I'm eager to hear opinions and why not, help offers :P.

Good night everyone

PS Mairin, I know I horribly misspelled your name throughout this mail. I'm sorry. As excuse, I can say I just can't find that i with an open accent on an italian keyboard. Apparently here in Italy we abhor such characters.



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