Re: [boost] Front page redesign...

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-20 01:48:29

Cory Nelson wrote:

> Hmm.. Make the boost logo horizontal, that empty block of blue doesn't
> look good (imho).  

Noted.. see my reply about this elsewhere.

> If you must keep the icons, 

I must ;-) They are the elements that make the page interesting. Without 
them the page would be basically back to the original. The point is to 
introduce something non-obtrusive and useful in the page that gives the 
eyes something to do other than fall asleep reading text.

> make the text for them
> run right next to their icons and much bigger (took me more than a
> quick glance to find my way to the text).

Well this is where I'll likely put my design foot down :-) Icons serve 
the purpose of stand ins for a corresponding text. In this case the 
icons are stand ins for the headings. Icons loose their effectiveness if 
you have the equivalent text near it. This is the stand in usefulness 
not the visual interest usefulness, although it also looses some of that 
because of the distraction that the text becomes.

My ideal would be to not have the text headings at all. But I concede 
that it is of some clarification value to part of the audience as to 
what the sections contain. The current design ties it to both the 
section and the icon without intruding onto the icon. And it takes at 
most a few seconds for someone to find the text so they are not likely 
to get totally lost.

> Congrats on using the h* tags correctly, not many people do that ;) 

Thanks :-) HTMLTidy and the W3 validators are my friends on this one.

> How about making it xhtml/html-strict?

Will try... Most of the HTML is not mine. It's copied from the CVS state 
and only slightly modified to make the CSS style easier to do. There's 
at least two validations that the HTML currently doesn't pass. All 
because of the Google suggested HTML ;-)

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