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Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 3
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:08:03 GMT
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Hi Dave,
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Eaton wrote:
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1) Personally, I find the new colors a little too bright.
Lugnet always looked more like a professional site because it’s got muted
background colors.
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I will have an alternative CSS ready in a few minutes which uses
background-colors with less chroma. In general, the colors are changed slightly
to match one “color chart” (don’t know how to describe this in English).
Actually, in the logo it was mainly the blue part that doesn’t match. I try to
make a comparison and will post it here.
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2) Note on the 16x16 logo graphic-- I kinda like the old one better since the
distinction between “blocks” is visible. Comparison here:
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You’re completely right, I changed it to the old one.
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3) I guess the other larger logo is also changed too? It seems... somehow
wrong. I guess it looks to me like someone did a quick photoshop job by
selecting a color range and then replacing with new colors. Several spots are
kind of pixelated, and the lines aren’t very well antialised and crisp.
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That was just caused by too much compression (respectively too less colors in
the .gif palette). I will have this fixed in the next draft.
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4) I agree with the previous comment about the icons-- Again, I think the
colors are a bit bright, and are a little too cartoony (but not “icon-y”
enough). Not sure how best to describe that...
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We definitive need a designer. Anyone here? Even if we use the current GFX for
News and Guide, we would need the equivalents for Spotlight, Events, Links and
FAQ. I even thought of engaging a professional pictogram designer :-/
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5) Again, the borders and fonts are really loud, making it look a little
kiddish. I’d be in favor of muting/removing/sizing down some of those borders
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I would agree with the borders, but not with font-size. Maybe I’m getting old,
but sometimes I find it difficult to read all those xx-small fonts on various
sites and content crowded together.
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Actually, on that note, it should also be a bit more consistant with them--
It’s got a black border dividing some of the blue/cyan/white areas, and in
other places it doesn’t.
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It should be a nearly black (touch of dark blue) border around blue/white areas
and a nearly black one (touch of very dark yellow) around the yellow areas.
Taking the very dark blue border also for yellow areas would look even more
weird (IMO). If you have a look at the current News and Guide pages, you will
notice that Todd and Suz also used yellowish borders for yellow areas and bluish
ones for blue areas.
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6) The “Read the official annoucement” or whatnot is a little large,
font-wise. Kind of draws attention away from the rest of the content. I’d opt
for way smaller, and probably less text. Something simple like “Read more
...”
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Probably “Read more...” and displaying inline should be our choice, indeed.
Though it doesn’t match the WCAG, which says to have different link text for
different destinations. But to whom it concerns, I will add different ”title”
attributes to these links.
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8) I love the links on the side. It annoys me at times when certain sites
don’t cooperate with others (like Lugnet guide has no links to Brickset’s
guide, and Peeron has no links to BrickLink’s inventory). Very handy. I might
change the order a bit, however. I’d recommend:
(snip)
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(not to push 1000steine to the bottom, but for people going
to Lugnet, they’re probably not overly likely to buzz over to a German site
with high frequency)
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No need for apologies :-) But the link doesn’t lead to 1000steine itself, but to
a multilingual page where you actually get feedback from LEGO (Other than here
in .dear-lego most times). The project was asked by Jake in the year dot,
unfortunately, it never got real attention other than by German speaking people.
I will think over the order nevertheless!
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10) Is the content in the “Latest MOC” and “Random Gallery” going to be
dynamic? Assuming it’s based on the posts to announce.moc? If so, is it
capable of automatically fishing out the relevant image and scaling it
appropriately?
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Three times “Yes”.
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Plus, definitely a good idea to have an administrative tool
ready to veto MOCs from showing up on the homepage.
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That’s a nice idea, but I guess this would go more towards “Cool MOC of the
Week” or something. The “Latest MOC” box should really contain the latest MOC
(from .announce.moc).
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12) Typo: need a space between “Top” and “Stories” in the Top Stories sidebar
area.
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Thanks! I’m very interested in all upcoming spelling mistakes too, they will
happen to me for sure ;-)
Leg Godt!
Rene
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| (...) Mostly looks good in terms of the layout and features. But a few comments: Designy comments first: 1) I'm not sure I understand why you wanted to change the colors of the logo and the background? Personally, I find the new colors a little too (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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