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Re: More old LUGNET homepage prototypes discovered
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:57:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
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I’m throwing these out here as food for thought. For example I am really
still fond of the national flags. Do you like flags? I can’t remember why
the didn’t make the final cut.
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The flags look good, but what are they supposed to do? Often when a row of
flags appears on a website, it is for selecting a language. But instead, no
matter which flag you click on, you get lugnet.loc. I think the flags only make
sense if Lugnet is a lot more internationalized than it is now.
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What I find most amusing about each of these, anyway, is that they all
actually function as alternative homepages... I was shocked upon viewing
to see current actual stories listed there.
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The miracle of FTX, eh? The disadvantage of that is that you can’t change the
way the various stories look on the page. For example the top stories are
using the color scheme and layout that FTX top stories always use, even though
we might want to consider other ways of displaying them on the redesigned
Lugnet.
By the way, you can’t just redesign the home page and be done. You have to make
the homepage consistent with other pages, which probably means either a global
site redesign, or a relatively small change to the homepage.
They are all nice in various ways, but suffer from the same flaw - too much
text. People don’t read text on web pages, they skim. I think that a more
graphical, outline style would be better than the paragraphs found on some of
those pages.
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I think the last one is essentially what we chose for the homepage in August
2000. Dang, I’m really font of #3c now (except for the demode vignetting in
the photo at the right). Oh well. A bit of history unveiled. Enjoy.
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Design-wise, I like the blue bar across the top with the logo and tagline there,
as seen in the 2* and 3* designs. I think 3c is great, except for all that
text. Replace the text in the center with graphics and outline-style text, and
I think you have a winner.
I would have Top Stories as it is on the production site now, but on the right
side, and have a navigation bar on the left (repeated throughout the site).
By the way, I don’t think Search should be so prominent. And if it is, it
should search the newsgroups rather than the parts database by default. If
there’s a Search, people gravitate to it, without reading the other options on
the page.
--Bill.
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| (...) Well, they read text, but only after they've determined what it's going to be about (so to know if it's worth reading). A block of text without a header is unlikely to be read. (...) I don't agree with having a navigation bar on the left. It's (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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