Re: [guadec-list] Working on the official web theme & layout

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 24 Feb 2006, at 08:21, Quim Gil wrote:

> Those of you interested in the look & feel, structure and  
> navigation of
> the website are invited to test and suggest improvements on tavon's
> GUADEC theme, already available.
>
> Post your comments at http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/Website or
> replying here, if you feel so lazy.

Sorry, it's Friday afternoon, and I'm lazy :)

Main problem... others have said it, but it's far too wide.  A well- 
designed web page fits my browser window, not the other way around.   
I have an adequately-large screen (1280x854), but I normally like to  
keep my browser window approximately square (and a bit less than the  
height of the screen), which keeps the line lengths of most pages  
readably-short.  I find anything wider than that to be unpleasant to  
look at, let alone read.  If a website forces me to resize my window,  
I usually just go somewhere else instead.

My only other comment is about the GNOME logo at the top.  It's not  
aligned with anything, it's not centred, and it's too far away from  
the GUADEC logo to look as if they're grouped together.  It just  
looks like it's been put there for no particular reason and nobody  
really knows what to do with it :/

That apart, it's a nice clean theme, and if those things were sorted  
out it would be pretty good.  (How does it do on accessibility?)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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