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Subject:	Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:10:47 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:

Hi all,

please see former discussion here: http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=3369

Thanks to all who were contributing ideas and suggestions.

So here is -without much fuss- the 6th draft of a new homepage:

http://www.lugnet.com/index-test-6.php

Known bugs: Upper header section isn’t displayed correctly in some browsers (but should be correct at least in IE and Firefox). I’m working on this.

Please post again comments, ideas, suggestions; I’d like to read your opinions.

Leg Godt!
Rene

Rene, this is really coming together nicely. My few personal nits...

The alternating background colours on the top stories links seems to just add clutter and detract from actualy reading the links. Is it really necessary?
The text for the titles in the center section seems a little big.
Having pre-existing text in search boxes. Uh, I hate that. :)

Keep up the great work!

J

Message has 4 Replies:

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
(...) I quickly snapped a version with the line backgrounds matching the box: (URL) I agree with Jason, I think with the gap between lines, this looks more pleasing, although there might need to be a line above the "More top stories", or something (...) (18 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
(...) You know, in theory, it is supposed to let the eye find and locate the individual stories better, but I have to agree with you Jason-- for some reason, it seems to confuse my eye rather than help it. I find it easier to read the stories in a (...) (18 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
Hi Jason, (...) I will try without them in #7. (...) Normally, me too. And though it is against WCAG, I also will try without it in #7. (...) Thank you very much! -Rene (18 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
(...) I think what bothers me (and maybe this is the case for others) is that these alternating colors are too disimilar--the contast between them is too much. I would suggest replacing the white color with the same light blue as the background of (...) (18 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)

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Hi all, please see former discussion here: (URL) Thanks to all who were contributing ideas and suggestions. So here is -without much fuss- the 6th draft of a new homepage: (URL) Known bugs: Upper header section isn't displayed correctly in some (...) (18 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX) !

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