Author Topic: Front page bling (Read 7134 times)

Tony · « **on:** December 04, 2010, 12:09:48 AM »

OK, my use of wiki tables and styling is really stabbing in the dark but I think the new Main Page layout is a little neater now.

Opinions?

Julian · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2010, 01:12:12 AM »

Table very good.

Colour very BAD!

Up there with pink spill pipes.

Black borders, white background, very, very light grey panels circa hex E7,E7,E7

You did ask!

Tony · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:26:43 AM »

I've got not taste, you'll have to fix it

Rotary-Motion · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:08:46 AM »

hmmm i quite like origianl

as it detracts from what a wiki site looks like

same layout as pages we upped...

im the same i built a website and over did it and it becomes not user friendly on eye and very much a distraction from we need to read learn on each page

gets confusing....

Tony · « **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:32:09 AM »

Fair comments.

I nicked the codes off the front page of the english wikipedia, thinking that if it was good enough for them it'd be good enough for us.

Maybe we can keep it plainer?

Julian · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:55:33 AM »

Mind if I have an edit?

Tony · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:14:33 PM »

Julian, you don't even need to ask the question!

Julian · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:16:19 PM »

Just being polite ... enjoy it while it lasts! Normally I'm a grumpy old git.

Julian · « **Reply #8 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:36:57 PM »

Ok .. over to you, your turn to shoot me down!

Tony · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2010, 09:17:25 PM »

My eyes don't sting when reading it anymore so that's a thumbs up from me

Julian · « **Reply #10 on:** December 04, 2010, 10:32:29 PM »

There's quite a nice little tool you can down load for free called Instant Eyedropper at http://instant-eyedropper.com/?ref=ie

Just hover over a colour on the screen and it shows the hex, rgb etc. Quite useful for picking spot colours from gradients which is what I did to pull colours, well, greys, from the background of the side bar.

Tony · « **Reply #11 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:12:57 PM »

Useful tool - thanks!

Tony · « **Reply #12 on:** December 05, 2010, 03:00:01 AM »

I see the dark box has changed to grey to match the other borders - looks better still that way, all blends together.

Tony · « **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2010, 11:02:25 AM »

I've removed that huge yellow logo, and modified the little corner one instead - what do you think?

Saves a large amount of front page real estate.

If anyone is a budding graphics designer (or knows one) please feel free to come up with a new logo...

Julian · « **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2010, 11:27:32 AM »

Looks fine but as you say, I still think we need that subtle and instant "something" to say what the site's about.

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