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

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Sat Sep 11 08:46:15 PDT 2004


Thanks alan.

There are some things that cannot be tested on my local setup.

I will write an email announcing in a second. You just are way faster at
typing out the ole emails and hitting send than me...

Jon


On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 00:32, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 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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