[DesDev] Article template concept revision

[Elfur Logadottir]

From: "Isaac Forman"

 > do you think we could have one page on the wiki with all the
| > sketches (sp?) you've done so far?
|
| I don't like the wiki. Sorry! Anyone is welcome to collate them though.

ok. will try to.

| > all of a sudden i feel like home, faq and contact should be
| > seperate ... cause they are a different kind of links than
| > the rest. they appear on every section of the site, even
| > though they refer to section related home/faq/contact don't they?
|
| Home goes to subsite home. FAQ is subsite FAQ (i.e., about articles and
| all of that junk). And Contact on the Articles section would link
| foremost to a form/email that contacts the Content team. That's how I've
| seen it being for at least a year.

which is what i thought, so maybe they should be grouped on the subheader
in some way and the rest of the items on that header also grouped
preferably (sp?) in another way.

| > * try nixing the framing of the content (or at least severely
| > minimize the left and right border)
|
| Already tried it. Looks too common.

common how?
have you tried removing the bgcolor and having the search/logon bar white?
i realize that's removing a big part of current design, but still, if it
solves the connection problems many of us are having, it might be worth it.
something like this:
http://nemendur.ru.is/elfur01/temp/evolt_article2-elfur.gif
(note, i didn't move anything, i only replaced the colors and lengthened
the blue bar)

for me, this relaxes the design ... there aren't as many colors competing
for attention. for a second i even considered not lengthening the blue bar,
but i'll leave that to you.

| > * try making the leftmostpart of the subheader black and that
| > way have the section reference absolutely clear, cause it's
| > going to have the same look. i realize that means that you
| > have a more visible vertical line on the left sidebar, but it
| > might be something ... if you find a good way to execute it.
|
| Already tried it as harsh block and gradient. Doesn't work, and also has
| the problem that you mentioned of adding a very prominent point of
| alignment.

rats, i feared that.

| Maybe the key is adding the search/login to the black bar. I just wanted
| that to be quite slim as it will exist on EVERYTHING evolt.org-related.

as will the search/logon, but i agree with you, don't enlarge the black
one. having them as seperate bars works just fine ... it's when the third
one comes into play that the problems arise.

thanks
elfur