Re: concept "shell": csnglobal

Hi All, As Hannes said- I welcome all feedback on the basic visual concept that we have created for the new look of php.net. It's a very 'early-stage' design layout, so your input would be appreciated at this time. Please feel free to contact me directly with your thoughts/suggestions/example sites, etc. Thanks, Chris On 5/11/08 1:43 PM, "Hannes Magnusson" <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris & all > > > Since I'm very busy these days I'd really appreciate if people on this > list could give Chris some feedback on this. > Since only plain/text attachments get through the mailinglist I've > uploaded the mockup to > http://home.oslo.nith.no/~maghan/php_42308.jpg > > Personally I think it looks simple and clean, but am very skeptical > about the top "ajax panel", if we have any use for such thing then the > size of it is at least 10x to big. Furthermore I have a hard time > imagining how the typical manual page would look like.. > > -Hannes > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Christopher Nielsen <chris@csng.com> > Date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:00 PM > Subject: concept "shell": csnglobal > To: Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> > > > Hi Hannes, > > In response to your feedback from a few weeks ago- I've designed a "hybrid" > of your suggested sites "postgres", etc- and some of the elements we > previously designed that you said your people really liked. Naturally, > there is still much to be designed here- but we wanted to get your opinions > on the "foundation" before moving forward. > > A few design notes; > > You'll see that we've used a clean, white space on this mock-up, and > incorporated the official logo. > > Understanding that you don't like large amounts of the original logo color- > we've only used it as "accent" color in the release articles title text. > > We moved away from the pseudo-3D look in favor of a simple and functional > 2D-look, which much better fits the "personality" of php.net. > > We kept the "tabs" at the top of the site because you mentioned your team > really liking them. We can certainly still modify the tab > title's/functions- but we think this menu system is very sleek, while still > being ultimately usable. > > We did not put much detail into the panels on the right side- because we > want your thoughts on the overall design before diving into details. > > We've included very few graphic elements because we took into consideration > bandwidth, etc- and we wanted to be lighter on graphics than our previous > concepts. > > Lastly, the "AJAX promo panel" is something we feel to be necessary to the > new site. It's a place where we can rotate important announcements/release > downloads/upcoming events/etc. I know that PHP is not a marketing > organization or anything- but most other development-oriented websites have > begun to include this type of homepage feature for it's benefits. Just a > thought- but let me know. > > OK- I think I've given you enough to think about- hopefully we're headed on > the right track. I look forward to your thoughts. > > -Chris > Chris Nielsen csnglobal, inc chris@csng.com 561-747-5522 office 561-747.5571 fax www.csng.com