X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3AED1DA7B for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 05:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60801-03 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:26:15 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB928D1DA7C for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:26:14 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3CC4C3BCCF; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:23:15 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2996A3BCAB; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:23:15 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:23:15 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai Cc: Dave Page , Alexey Borzov , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Requirements for updated site In-Reply-To: <20040115123718.GM776@nexus.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: <20040116011609.S45512@ganymede.hub.org> References: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B872047C@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> <20040115123718.GM776@nexus.ninth-circle.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200401/119 X-Sequence-Number: 3358 On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > Well, Marc has said often enough he can't do webdesign worth a jack. ;) Hey, I never said I was *that* bad ... but you are right, I'm close :) > But seriously, is everybody on this list a webdesigner? I know I am not > a professional one, I just dabble and try to be very pedantic about > designs which place user interaction on the first place. If you can then > make things aesthetically nice it is a very good thing. Agreed, but even someone that isn't a webdesigner has an opinion on wha they do find nice, and what they don't ... and it was with the opinions of many that the web site was designed ... I might not be able to really explain why I don't like Alexey's first attempt, I just know that the best I can say is that my eyes couldn't seem to focus on anywhere ... several others have commented similarly ... > I sincerely hope that you will do away with the menus on both side of > the center, continuously scrolling up and down is generally disliked by > users. 'k, not against the getting rid of the dual menus, but am curious as to how that would reduce the need for scrolling? Wouldn't that just mean a longer menu on the one side to scroll through? > What doesn't help, but IIRC that's being remedied, is that a lot of > links which fall under postgresql.org have different designs. This is > highly annoying from a user perspective. I think everyone here already agrees with that :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664