Hey Davide!
It's great to see such a webpage being build up and hope it will prosper. I've being following the development of Inkscape a lot closer in the early days. I now am just a user and even that has been decreased, since I have a MacBook and use MacOS because with Linux my wireless is still not working.
Anyways, I must admit, I have not read all of this thread on the topic, but I do also have a lot of criticism :-D I hope it is valued and not taken for ranting.
First of all it's all about branding and corporate design. I see from the references at nois3lab that you have done at least some work on branding. While one can arguably make deviations from a corporate design for such a page, I would refrain from going this far. I think the idea of going from a white background to a dark one is rather good. However, the dominating colour besides this should be a light green as seen on www.inkscape.org. The pink not only doesn't fit the corporate design (ok, it was never defined, but let's take, what we have) but also actually looks a lot like 90ies.
Same goes for shapes. Instead of these spacily bowed rectangle, work with rectangles and rectangles with rounded corners.
Font: Arial instead of Trebuchet.
Over all the layout also needs some cleaning it up :-) I would gladly waste some time on a layout, if you want me to. Nice distraction from unistuff you know...
Besides the style, I have trouble understanding your navigation. Up I have Gallery|Graphic Gallery|Web but Random Gallery is below... There should be just one navigation and the two first big boxes "Wow I..." and "Would you..." could be placed somewhere on the page. The view sight as slideshow shoud be places at another spot... Furthermore the text in the first two boxes should be changed. The first box let's the reader say something, the second one addresses the reader. That should be unified like: "How can I become one of the artists?"
One more issue: On my firefox in MacOS the text only looks good, when I hover over one of the boxes and get a flyover-hint. otherwise the antialiasing has 100% alpha, which of course doesn't really give the desired effect for antialiasing.
Cheers and keep up the good work!
David
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On Jan 25, 2008, at 6:05 , davide|inkscapegallery wrote:
What happened here? O:-) I just wanted to say that maybe the angry user was right... i worked on the website in the last 3 hours (it's so late in Italy now...)and i continuosly updated the css, so... :-)
But, what i've done? I have to say that maybe i didn't understand the svg problem just because it was so easy and i was thinking to bizarre solutions, i don't know why...
Now you have svg upload in inkscape gallery, the file is linked in teaser and full node (drupal language) so if you click on that, firefox shows it. :-)
I fixed the layout after this upgrade and you can see an example in the "test big size" content.
Tomorrow i will give this more emphasis now i'm gonna lie just for 123 hours...
See you tomorrow, Da.
ryan lerch ha scritto:
I believe that http://test.inkscapegallery.net/ is the website, but remember that it is still a test site, and im sure any ideas / thoughts that anyone has towards the design and usability of the site will be taken on board. Why argue when you could be sharing your great ideas for a better inkscape community?
cheers,
ryanlerch
On Jan 25, 2008 2:14 PM, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <shawnhcorey@...1487... mailto:shawnhcorey@...1487...> wrote:
Richard Querin wrote:
Now there is a constructive piece of criticism. Thanks for
elevating the
discussion.
RQ
You know, I used to ignore s*** like this. But now I reply in kind.
*JUST HOW DOES YOUR REPLY ANSWER MY QUESTION?*
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