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

[Bryce Harrington]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie> writes:
> 
> > I really preferred the old layout.  
>
> I (mostly) liked what we saw in the screenshot, but what is up now is
> much worse.  Are these changes deliberate, or are we designing around
> a specific browser?

Guys, I think the commentary could be toned down a few notches.
Certainly there's work still to be done but rejon's doing an amazing
amount of work here.  The feedback is helpful, although I think it could
be phrased a bit more constructively.  Usually a screenshot is
sufficient to indicate the issue.

> Something is very wrong here.  It feels to me like someone has used a
> GUI-based WYSIWYG HTML authoring tool targeted to one specific
> browser.  As an open-source project, we absolutely cannot have that
> kind of website.  OCAL cannot afford to drive away Mozilla users.
> 
> > The Search tool is no longer clearly labelled as "Search".
>   
> It's not very accessible, either, due to the aforementioned overlapping.
>   
> > "Get Clipart Packages" is not as obvious as "Downloads" or "Download
> > Clipart"
>   
> No, "Get Clipart Packages" is better, because it specifies exactly
> what the user is going to get.  "Download Clipart Packages" would be
> okay, I suppose, but "Download Clipart" is going to make the user
> think he's going to get a browse interface for downloading clipart
> images, which isn't what that link points to.
> 
> > None of the links are underline anymore.

Bryce