[EDIT] CF 4.0 design modifications
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3 Jan 2012, 21:07
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After a long talk with krosan I gave him some ideas to make the website more userfriendly. You can check the modifications below :
Changes
- Larger top navigation bar
- "Middle bar" put as an horizontal bar for the website to be less messy
- Darker background to make it less agressiv to the eyes
- Main content is larger on my version
Waiting for your feedback :)
EDIT 1 : Text size in the horizontal bar (above the main content) looks weird because I just cut some pieces of the middle bar and put it there. Then I resized it. Don't take margins and texts size into account.
EDIT 2 :
- Darker background
- Darker text (read more, right menu, main content)
- Contribute content button is smaller
- "Tweets / Other News / Events / Polls / Recent activity" is now above the main content to make the right menu more visible
EDIT 3 :
- Background added behind the main content, the "Tweet" bar, and the right menu to make the components a bit less floaty
Changes
- Larger top navigation bar
- "Middle bar" put as an horizontal bar for the website to be less messy
- Darker background to make it less agressiv to the eyes
- Main content is larger on my version
Waiting for your feedback :)
EDIT 1 : Text size in the horizontal bar (above the main content) looks weird because I just cut some pieces of the middle bar and put it there. Then I resized it. Don't take margins and texts size into account.
EDIT 2 :
- Darker background
- Darker text (read more, right menu, main content)
- Contribute content button is smaller
- "Tweets / Other News / Events / Polls / Recent activity" is now above the main content to make the right menu more visible
EDIT 3 :
- Background added behind the main content, the "Tweet" bar, and the right menu to make the components a bit less floaty
still i dont like the journalpart. it looks somehow hidden ..
- site looks better with adblock. Banner next to logo is just shit, logo is really important and should have a higher priority than a banner, place the banner next to the menu or on the left vertical.
- Further don't like layout would rather have menu on the left, and don't like the menubar on top either, its better than before now.
- And perhaps this is a good suggestion, you can already move the menu around.Make it possible to choose how much menu items you would like too see for each section. For an example look here http://tweakers.net/ Als this site has a pretty similair kind of menu perhaps you can get some ideas of their design, its much more combined not single pieces of design.
- Perhaps a good idea to integrate search and the logo and the menubar into a whole piece of design
e: your one improved a bit it but for my tastes its still better this one :)
enough said.
e:or atleast under the main banner
e2: and i sure think the contribute-button is way too big and way too in-your-face. also i cant see anything but two adds and half of the first news with first look to the page. i need to scroll down million years until i can find something interesting, which is just crap - it looks ugly and is annoying
in cf3 i can see news, cups, articles, interviews, my crossfire, other news and poll, plus maincontent and columns with a first view, and it doesnt look ugly, aggressive or annoying.
e3: it also needs something (like a grey or black or whatever line) to divide the news from each other, now it looks like its all one big news.
e4: im starting to feel it with edit3 one, but i was wondering if the white bacground of content could be just a very little bit darker. like light-light grey, just a little touch so its not that burning white. one would be able to see contrasts better with own eyes like that.
e5:
agons version with middle bar seems quite potential too tho
it would also solve the poll-problem which someone mentioned
i cant...even not on your picture...
and well i dislike the twitter/activity part @ main top...but thats just my opinion
2) Problem solved
PS: Could you implement the "new" logo (that can be seen next to the url in the adress bar) instead of that red "beta" thingy?
I received a private message from Jani and I guess these modifications should be taken into account.
Though i could live with edit 3, somehow it gives me a 'id use that' feeling :D