Re: Website update?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:01 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> 
> >> The new site is located here:
> >> http://jonathon.quotidian.org/gtkmm.org/index.shtml
> >> (be gentle with the server, though.  It's only served on a DSL line
> >> for now)
> >
> > It looks generally more up-to-date, though not radically cool.
> 
> Were you looking for radically cool?  Because that's not really what I
> was going for, and I'm not sure I'm capable of radically cool, anyway
> :)
> 
> > 3. The "Other Resources" title is odd, because I didn't at first see
> > that the "main" menu items are in a horizontal list at the top. I'm
> > quite sure that this will lead to people not finding stuff. I like the
> 
> I agree that the title is a bit odd.
> Would it help if the horizontal list was aligned along the left
> instead of the right so that it was harder to miss the 'main' menu?
> Or do you think a totally different arrangement is necessary?

That could help. I don't have a better suggestion, I'm afraid.

> > 4. On the other pages (not the first page), the page looks rather plain
> > - both the left and right hand sides are just black on a white
> > background. But I don't like the thin lines that we have on the current
> > site.
> 
> hmm.  I'm not so sure I agree with this.  I tend to think that the
> plain white main section looks rather elegant and uncluttered, but
> that's just my opinion.  I'll experiment more with some
> differentiation of the sidebar, though I've tried some things already
> and wasn't happy with them at all.

I'm mostly concerned that the 2 sections have no clear separation other
than the separate paragraph blocks.

> 
> Thanks for the input,
> Jonner
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