Wow, cool.
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 20:59 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Although I am not 100% happy with the look (needs more
cowbell/bling!),
> I do think the theme addresses some of my long time
usability nags with
> our current theme (the placement of the account
preferences always
> bugged me, for example).
You took care of one that has long bugged me, the content
getting tucked
under the right nav bar. I tested a table layout, and it
worked great:
http:
//wiki.linuxgrrl.com/KarstenWade/TableTest
I'm very very very happy with that look. I also like how
the text wraps
around the nav element, as seen here;
http://wiki.lin
uxgrrl.com/MairinDuffy
> I was also looking to come up with a style that
> would fit in nicely on another CMS, so maybe we could
use the wiki for
> being a wiki and have a CMS that is managed more
carefully for
> non-contributors looking to learn more about Fedora -
see the navbar in
> the mocks? (not in the theme yet)
+1 Yes, this design separates the Wiki-ness in a way that
we can use it
for multiple faces. Perhaps the Edit etc. tools can be a
general tools
area where the Web-app specific tools are displayed.
I notice the "More Actions:" drop-down is missing;
is that intentional?
Perhaps it could sneak back into the right-side menu? Or
does it belong
with the other action tools?
> I figured I would send this out so more people knew
about it (folks have
> been helping me out with it this weekend in
#fedora-admin). If anybody
> has ideas on how to improve it (especially bling-wise
 )
let's discuss it!
One thing that is bothering my eyes is the way the Edit et
al tools
bounce when moused-over. The cool highlighting (I like)
makes the other
elements shift out of the way when it is activated (I don't
like).
The table of contents [[TableOfContents]] is a little
plain/unadorned.
It could use something to make it stand out just a bit.
Faint border
around it? I'd also like to see the sub-headers not get so
much leading
space.
One thing I wonder ... the color of the general paragraph
and header
font is a medium gray. I've heard about some advantages to
doing that,
and it looks fine for me. I'm wondering how it looks for
people with
worse vision than mine. I reckon Paul Frields saw this
already, and he
is usually one of my bellwethers in this regard.
Formatting example:
http://wiki.linuxgrrl.com/KarstenWade/FormattingTest
Other feature ideas ...
* Use some of the banner space to display the Fedora News
feed; we're
going to be doing a more regular update (daily?), so the
content would
be fresher.
* Replace the search with a fancy, AJAX search (with an
elegant failure
method) that searches across all Fedora websites. Maybe the
fancy AJAX
allows for inline filtering of searches, etc.
cheers - Karsten
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