Layout redesign

Suggestions and comments about the ReactOS website

Moderator: Moderator Team

Post Reply

Should be there a redesign of website?

Poll ended at Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:09 pm

yes
1
7%
no
11
79%
i dont care
2
14%
 
Total votes: 14

.aart3k
Posts: 339
Joined: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:21 am

Layout redesign

Post by .aart3k »

Hi

I have made a topic like that but there's no effect at the moment so:

I think that current website design is definitively not nice and clear looking. Yes it's simple but i think it needs some work to be made on it.
There is no graphics except logo (that was made former), icons and basic HTML shapes

Actually i'm working on my own redesign (rather on package of my redesign concepts, using open source software only ;) ), based on current but with some graphs and graidents added (to look like a kde-look.org like and some mozilla like stuff)
i'll put them here in a short time.
geertvdijk
Posts: 318
Joined: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:19 am

Post by geertvdijk »

I agree with you on the fact that it isn't a great looking website, but it works, and it works good, and navigating it is easy. The design isn't distracting, putting the focus on the content.
I do think some extra designing would be nice, but then mainly as improving this design, instead of redesigning. So the same layout, but some additional 'effects' like subtle gradients in the background of buttons and such.
That's just what I think tho :D ^^
(Long story short: I voted no by the way, and this is my motivation) ^^
-graey-
.aart3k
Posts: 339
Joined: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:21 am

Post by .aart3k »

hm, yeah i'd said it bad. not redesign but general improvement :)
i think at the end of this week i'll show sth of my work
Andrewm1986
Posts: 108
Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:08 pm

Post by Andrewm1986 »

I must disagree

I very much like the newest design
cmoibenlepro
Posts: 483
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:44 pm
Location: Canada

Post by cmoibenlepro »

This website is an huge improvement from the previous one, and it's continuously improving... It took a lot of time before it was changed, so let's keep it!
ThePhysicist
Developer
Posts: 509
Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:46 pm

Post by ThePhysicist »

I totally agree with Andrewm1986 and cmoibenlepro. I really like the design. And it's clean and lean. Adding more graphics and other eyecandy stuff would only eat up more resources, thus distracting people with dialup connection and/or slow computers. I really hate those overblown websites, that take hours to load and eat up 10% of my cpu time.
geertvdijk
Posts: 318
Joined: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:19 am

Post by geertvdijk »

ThePhysicist wrote:I totally agree with Andrewm1986 and cmoibenlepro. I really like the design. And it's clean and lean. Adding more graphics and other eyecandy stuff would only eat up more resources, thus distracting people with dialup connection and/or slow computers. I really hate those overblown websites, that take hours to load and eat up 10% of my cpu time.
Actually what I ment was some slightly gradiented headers and stuff, just like the ones already there in the phpBB forum... They don't eat much cpu time, they're relatively small (JPEG/GIF/PNG), and they may give it that extra 'boost'...
-graey-
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests