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Txpq
I’ve struggled with this one. I thought I had one or two good ideas but they didn’t work in practice, and basically I’ve given up on it. I can’t see which direction the graphics and design should go.
But it’s a TXP community site so I’m hoping I can leave it to you to put some artistry and graphical sense into it. It needs your input desperately!
Edit: I’ve redesigned the front page.
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Like it… Bookmarked it for a better look tomorrow when I’m fresh…
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#3 2007-11-01 16:44:57
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I like it, Peter! An interview a day, whoa! Bookmarked :)
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Glad you like the site! But there’ll have to be more authors than just me to do an interview a day, Els! One a week is good going for me!
colak and Els, you surely don’t like the design/graphics very much do you? I can’t see any pizzazz in it at all and I’m just not artistic enough to know what to do about it. I think it desperately needs a touch of magic from an aspiring young artist or something…
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#5 2007-11-01 20:27:11
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Peter, I’m not a designer so don’t expect any useful input from me on that area. I think the design is ok, but not the images, the quality is not very good and I think the border is much too wide. But I’m not sure if a site like this needs so many images. Maybe some more quotes in the left column, like you did on the Sam Brown page? I like that.
What I also like is the way you show the previous article in the left column on the front page.
I think it desperately needs a touch of magic from an aspiring young artist or something…
I’m neither aspiring, nor young, nor am I an artist :( But I’m sure there are lots of them here :)
And that leads me to another thought… The way you are emphasizing the youth and coolness of the target audience deterred me a bit at first sight. (Cool is not a word I like at all!) But after reading those two interviews I realized that even though I’m not so young and cool I still like it :) So maybe you should make it look a bit less like you’re excluding a certain part (however small) of the txp community…
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Thanks for the tip re the border. Is it better now? I’ll bear in mind what you say about images.
Re youth and coolness you got me thinking and I don’t want to exclude anybody. I hope older users are only as deterred as you, Els, because I would like young people joining in and part of the reason is to do with cool . As this is a design discussion forum, I don’t want to hijack it, so I’ve started a debate about how cool is TXP where I hope young and old alike might voice their opinions.
I’ve already got interviews lined up with slightly older TXPeople but I do think that the majority of users are young so I hope they will join in as soon as possible before ‘mature’ folk like me turn TXPQ into a senior citizen’s newsletter:)
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#7 2007-11-03 15:07:06
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zero wrote:
Thanks for the tip re the border. Is it better now?
I like the border better this way. That doesn’t necessarily mean it is better :)
(I replied on TXPQ re the other thing.)
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I like the content and idea of the site lot, like child enjoys eating candy :)
But I don’t actually like the design. Too much colors, paddingless and little hazy. With better design the site would be awasome, like candy with a awasome looking packing and a lovely candy-papers.
Cheers!
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Glad you like the content and idea, Jukka! I agree about the design but am feeling lost. Are you referring to the front page re padding? What would you do with the colours? And I don’t understand the hazy bit either – it seems clear to my eyes, but I do wear very strong lenses in my glasses!
If you can help turn it into an awesome design, we would all appreciate it!
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Well I looked the XHTML and CSS of the site, that is quite – ymph, messy.
- Why sites main headline is: “My love of socks is an esthetic/comfort thing, caused by the fact that my feet are often quite cold”? :D
- Nav is written uppercase, which should be done with CSS
text-transform: uppercase;– not with real uppercase - What we do with 6 alternative stylesheets? They all load u know, so they all slow down the site.
- The search-form’s submit button has label. Kinda odd.
- Sometimes I feel like there is too much of block-elements. Like labels wrapped with
ps.
Are you referring to the front page re padding?
Sidebar, and actually all the text. I don’t like when it have no space to the edges.
What would you do with the colours?
Changing them something that fit together. Like this, example
Cheers!
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Thanks for your reply, Jukka. It has helped a lot and I think the site’s better now (but I’m sure not finished yet!)
Gocom wrote:
Well I looked the XHTML and CSS of the site, that is quite – ymph, messy.
It’s just as messy but I’ll clean it up when finished
Why sites main headline is: “My love of socks is an esthetic/comfort thing, caused by the fact that my feet are often quite cold”? :D
This alters depending on the latest date of article publication. If you’re meaning semantically, I’ve altered it to a p and altered the question below the logo to a h1
Nav is written uppercase, which should be done with CSS
text-transform: uppercase;– not with real uppercase
But if I do that the lowercase style indicators become uppercase so no indication of small or big
What we do with 6 alternative stylesheets? They all load u know, so they all slow down the site.
As I understand it, they load and go into the cache, so just one download. I prefer to give users style options for accessibility reasons as well as for fun. Anybody else find the site slow? It seems fast to me.
The search-form’s submit button has label. Kinda odd.
Accessibility
Sometimes I feel like there is too much of block-elements. Like labels wrapped with
ps.
I’ll clean that up sometime too ;-)
I don’t like when it have no space to the edges.
Yes, I agree. I thought I’d try it for a change, but always felt a bit uncomfortable with it.
Changing them something that fit together. Like this, example
That’s a nice palette but before I dump the Textpattern colour theme what are your thoughts now I’ve made some changes? (The images are now different size and distorted so I’ll change those when finished)
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Just a suggestion about the design: maybe TXPQ can use a template from TxP templates or the Textgarden.
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