Re: What now?

Respectfully, its a design direction, not a completed, ready to go 
design.  The only comment that I see that has any direct indication of 
what you thought about the direction and concept is you don't like the 
watermark.  Anchor colors, etc are very adjustable, and design wise I 
feel this site makes much more of a profession impact than the current 
site, apologies to the designer of said site.

The great thing about this part of the process is if there is a common 
consensus that the direction is sound, the html template can be tweaked 
to a great degree while keeping some sort of comonality with the design 
concept.  If the design concept is off, then lets focus on something new.

My question is how do we come up with a design concept that everyone can 
agree to move forward with, with so many experts and opinions, which all 
frankly differ from each other.   Let's establish a way to vote on 
designs as initial directions, so that we don't waste everyones time 
with designing, reviewing, and changing things that will never see the 
light of day.

Gavin

Robert Treat wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:18, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
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>>Alexey Borzov wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Dave Page wrote:
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>>>>>What's needed now is
>>>>>1) Redesign
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>>>>OK, I believe Gavin was working on that - it that still the case?
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>>>BTW, I think we should do some kind of design specification. The 
>>>current mode, where Gavin does a mockup and *then* everyone criticizes 
>>>it / suggests ideas does not seem too good to me.
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>>I agree ;-)
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>>The current design suggestion is at 
>>http://ehpg.net/~gavinr/pgsql/template2.html ... has it grown on anyone 
>>or should I ditch it and start thinking of new directions?
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>Personally I've never cared for it as it seems to violate a number of
>usability guidelines... the watermarked logo hurts readability, the
>links use the same color for visited and non-visted links, the heading
>that labels the search area is redundant, no description in the title
>bar, no summary of what the organization is about.... can you tell I
>used to do website usability for a living?
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>I also think the color scheme is a bit drab, but given the slonik logo
>you don't have much to work with... did you see those shirts the
>brazillian guys made up? those were nice.  
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>Robert Treat
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