[ros-web] Front page

[jh]

Mikko Tikkanen wrote:
> Few words...
> 
> First of all, you're violating one important rule; You should never
> ever have more than three colours at your design. Nor more that three
> fonts. Anything more and it looks like it's just been thrown together.
> Already at the banner area you have tinted blue, pure blue and cyan.
> 

Both the atom logo and the banner area background images came from a page
submitted by frick85. All I have done, is to removed the navigation bar and
some white bars from both images. I personally, like these images and I
cannot agree with your view that "it looks like it's just been thrown
together" with respect to these images.
The navigation bar, page colour, underlining and heading box colours are
my choice.

> Second of all, why the button-like headers (at the right)? That just
> confuses people thinking that they are buttons, i.e. do something
> related to form posting.

The heading boxes started out being much the same as in the 'Mikko' design.
I have just changed them in response to the feedback which I have had from
Kevin Hunter

> 
> Third, why did you put the logo partially out from the page? 

Do you mean out from the left side of the page?

I know that it would look better if it had a little left margin.

I have since tried it centered, it sure draws your eyes into it, but others 
may think that it is in the wrong place in the centre.

>It's good
> to break straight lines but the logo should always be completely
 >
> visible.

I don't understand what you are refering to. All of it is visible.

> Specially since there is nothing more in the banner. Which
> leads us to next part...
> 
> The banner is unbalanced. Everything is crammed to left side, leaving
> the right-hand side completely devoid of anything.
>  
> -mikko
> 
I have not found a way to position dynamic text in the banner area, it just
sits on top of navigation bar and then spills into the area below and I do 
not want to use an image.

The reason for sending screen shots was two fold, one to show page style
colours and two to prove that a page can be positioned without using layout
tables.

I am interested in access and scalability and would like to know if there
is a way to keep the ratio of an image when the screen size is adjusted?

The atom logo, if no size is assigned to it, will burst over the navigation 
bar (will have to look into this) or if it has it's width and height 
assigned with percentages values, will distort, when the browser window is 
reduced vertically.

Regards,
jh