Aaagh! Re: [Clipart] new site design in progress

Alan Horkan horkana at maths.tcd.ie
Sat Sep 11 08:32:44 PDT 2004


Did I miss an announcement about the site changing over to the new layout?
I thought it was going to be tested as an alterntive stylesheet for a
while longer.

I really preferred the old layout.  Now it looks like it is using frames,
but from the markup I can tell it is not but either way it renders the
Page Up and Page Down keys useless.  The three column layout looks
cluttered on smaller screens and is actually a step back, the site
originally had a three column design.

The Search tool is no longer clearly labelled as "Search".
"Get Clipart Packages" is not as obvious as "Downloads" or "Download
Clipart"

None of the links are underline anymore.

The blues are okay but the greenish-grey colour is not very pleasant.

Things look a bit off if you try using the alternative stylesheets, I
think some adjustment probably needs to be made to them to accomodate the
new changes.
How compatible with old crappy browsers like IE5 is the new site?

The more compact upload box is an improvement though.

I'm sorry I cannot provide more constructive criticism but I really think
the changes have significantly disimproved the site.

- Alan




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