Re: New GTK+ website design

[Matthew Bucknall <matthew bucknall googlemail com>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been meaning to send this for some time now. I managed to get some of
> the last things fixed up and the site hosted on my server for some testing.
>
> Thanks to Devin for all the hard work put in on this. The biggest change is
> that all the pages are written in PHP and the style is a bit more slick with
> a nice news feed available too.
>
> There are a few things to decide on, so I will try to get some consensus
> from you all before making the final decision on these points:
>
>  1. The titles are available in blue (default) or red. If you append
>    "?red" to the link you can see them in red. What do people prefer
>    here? I quite like the blue now.
>
>  2. The features page has 2 approaches. One is with next/previous
>    buttons to go through the features. The other lists them as we
>    did before. What do people prefer? I like both, but would probably
>    go with the old school approach:
>
>      http://curlybeast.net:8080/features.php
>
>      vs
>
>      http://curlybeast.net:8080/features.php?old
>
>  3. The footers have CSS/HTML validation links there for those
>    interested, these will be removed when we finally migrate.
>
> --
>
> Are there any other points or questions people have about the content/design
> that we should address before moving over to this?
>
> Comments welcome,
>
> --
> Regards,
> Martyn
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I think the approach *without* prev/next buttons is better. It's much
better to see all features at a glance rather than go through all
those pages. Unless you already know the buttons are there, it's not
even immediately obvious what they are or what you're supposed to do
with them.

I second Allin Cottrell's opinion re the header. The drop shadow looks
pretty dated.