Re: RFC: Website redesign

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
>  With all due respect, all of the designs you've posted look like _weblog_
> templates, and that doesn't seem appropriate to me for a software website.
> One of the things I most dislike about the weblog format is the fixed-width
> centre column and the large tracks of wasted space down the sides; although
> the official site is certainly "bare bones" (some would say "ugly") at the
> moment, at least the information density is high and there isn't any wasted
> space.

That is most probably due to that the templates googlepages offer are
mostly aimed at such weblogs. I think the suggestions are not just for
layout but also for color (which is very important, to me at least,
when deciding whether a webpage is 'damn ugly' or 'quite nice').

Also I think that the main page should not contain more information
than fits in one 'screen'. That is, there should be no scrollbar on
'sensible' (say, above 1024*768) resolutions. To me a site feels
'overfull' if it's mainpage has a scrolbarr. Instead, I think the
mainpage should be a portal to other parts of the website, instead
of... well... everything-crammed-on-one-page-so that.... so that what?
What purpose does it serve to put all information, ungrouped, not easy
to find, and as such chaotic, on one page?

Anyway... </rant>

Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier