[DesDev] Design to template

[Isaac Forman]

> you know, at least a few of us have made the comment that the 
> only part of the design we had problems with was this three 
> part header conjunction. several suggestions have been made 
> but none of them have invoked a possibly different solution 
> of that header on your part (i'm not even going close to 

I don't think you would do it intentionally, but it seems like you're
calling me on lack of action? I've just put out all of these templates
amidst paid work, a writing project, and 50-60 hours/week working at a
bar. I am not stopping anyone interested in seeing an alternative style
actually trying it themselves. A couple of people have done this to
(what I would call) little/no response.

If you have another idea that you'd like to try, that's cool. You've
done it already and you can do it again, right?

This is my design proposal until I receive a suggestion that I
personally think improves the design. I'm not going to present something
that I don't favour and that I don't think looks good. I've tried tabs
(looks very average). I've tried a gradient (looks cheap), and I've
tried a black block under the cube/Work bit in the subheader
(strengthens the grid too much). I just don't have time to go back, redo
each of these things that I've discarded and cut them to GIFs and put
them online. Anyone else can do that if they like.


> it's not about the extra white, it's about the removal of 
> taupe (that's the name of the color, right :)

The taupe gives it warmth (more so than if I'd used grey). It works with
those three base evolt.org colours. And it keeps the white region as an
exclusive content-focused region. Removing the taupe leaves us with a
stark area that competes with the focus/intensity of the content area.

There are ways that we can give focus to each of the three boxes in the
header as they're selected, but that's largely irrelevant to
design/layout right now, IMO. i.e., it's changing an image or similar.


> i agree with you there. for me that happens by removing the 
> extra color, although i do admit - you could probably find a 
> much better solution of changing/removing the tension than i did.

I get no feeling of tension. It looks 'right' to me. The hierarchy of 3
cubes, then evolt.org-wide login and search options, then sub-site
header/content is perfectly logical for me. I don't like the idea of
having a login box in a sub-site sidebar if I'm logging in to a network
of sites (which is what we have).
 

> no, actually i'm some what good at visualizing surroundings 
> when given a rough idea, so that's not it. my problem is with 
> the subheader itself, that it isn't getting calm enough 
> surroundings to get appropriate focus

In this context, stark white isn't calm. And an application of any other
of the RGB triplet cannot work (red and green? Ugh!). So I've used a
colour that can associate reasonably with all 3 of R, G, and B.



isaac