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Submitted by mindless on Wed, 2005-11-02 15:33
As part of our effort to improve usability and accessibility of information on our website we've introduced several changes over the past few days. We started with some fixes to the search function so now it should be easier to find relevant topics in the forums. Next we launched a new design for the main forums and documentation pages, including banner colors to represent various areas of the Gallery project. We plan to expand this color scheme to other pages within the documentation and forums. Finally, today we performed a significant reorganization of the forums to greatly expand the areas for discussing Gallery 2.x. We hope these changes will help you find the information you need!
Thank-you!
I noticed this last night, excellent work!
I think the headers look kinda udgly (sorry). Or at least they do not fit with the rest of the design. The way it is now you have at least 4 different headers in use already and in these I counted the forum headers as 1. Perhaps you should also look at getting a consistend layout??
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constructive criticism is more helpful.. what 4 different headers to you refer to?
Sorry, I thought it was clear, my mistake. Headers above these posts are 1. Headers above the boxes on the right are two. Headers above the posts are three. And When you search the forum or above the "attach file" part those headers make nr 4.
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Ok, those are all different.. I guess I don't see why those should be a priority or why this deserves such criticism with so little impact on usability. Understandably we've focused on those with the most visibility, sidebar blocks and forums. The other areas you mentioned are still using the drupal default look. If you have specific suggestions or patches for how we can improve things feel free to post in the Site Feedback forum, thanks.
How about giving the site a minimum width?
great! now the forums look like forums
I agree the header looks ugly. i think the problem are these two ugly black lines
There's a whole forum for site feedback.. none of the above criticism really have anything to do with the changes we announced.
I'm going to have to disagree here. The same site header is used for both the forum and documentation pages, and they both suffer from not having a minimum width. It's one line in your css to fix this.
I see you fixed the disappearing/blinking images in the top links on mouseover. I like that :P
Arlo, what are you talking about? What does the site header have to do with the changes announced here? You still posted here and not in the site feedback forum. And if it is so easy, why did you not include the one line css change?
This thread is about updated pages, and the header is part of those pages. Seems relevant to me. This is the change (addition, really):
body { min-width: 800px; /* or whatever */ }I will post it in the forum.
Thanks a lot all of you!
I was was missing the ease of use of the previous phpBB forums.
I still wish for:
Lapinoo -
Yes, I agree that the fonts are a little large. Perhaps a font size chooser would be good...(see this page as an example, with the "Text Size" at the top of the article: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=3611411 ).
Rwd, these are valid comments. Since work on this site and the documentation site have come from multiple designers, there has been some inconsistency. We are, however, moving towards more consistency.
Arlo, min-width is fine for a small portion of visitors of this site (Mozilla, Firefox, Safari), but IE does not currently support min-width. We can certainly add it, but it's not *the* solution.