Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Hello,
first of all, thanks for the huge work involved in taking control of the website layout, and across so many parts of the Debian web ecosystem. That was impressive work! There are a few minor issues I noticed in the new website design that I thought of collecting here. I'm doing it in the hope it can be useful, but I don't dare opening a new bug report for every one of them unless you tell me to, and I really don't mind if you just say "meh" and close this bug. Here's the list of issues I noticed: * The news and other prime time links end up way down in the screen. This may be because I have a 12" widescreen laptop display which is wide and short, the screenshot is at http://store.enricozini.org/debianorg.png On the other hand, text that runs the full width of the page tends to give me a headache as I read it. With widescreen displays becoming more and more like the standard, I feel like it may make sense to chop some space on the side to use for links, although looking at the new design I have the feeling that removing the sidebar was an explicit choice, so never mind. * The gradient behind the top left swirl logo does not match the gradient of the rest of the top part. The difference between the two is especially visible after the 'n' in 'debian' just below the swirl. * I see no reason why having a white margin below the top left swirl logo: it gives me the feeling of a layout problem rather than an explicit choice. * Alignment is an issue throughout the whole home page. If you draw a vertical line anywhere through the page, you don't see any two consecutive text objects that will align to it. The overall feeling is of confusion and untidyness rather than elegange. * There is no alignment at all on the right margin, either: justifying the introduction text at the top instead of having it left-aligned makes already a great difference. Making ul#hometoc-cole and the sponsor link right-aligned also makes quite a difference. * "Getting started", "News" and "Security advisories" here occupy only the left half of the screen, and seem to call for a two-column layout. * The "Getting started", "News" and "Security advisories" titles don't differentiate enough, graphically, from the rest of the body text, and they appear to me as just a slightly bigger body text. A quick stab at making them serif and bold, for example, gives a much clearer graphical distinction. * In "News" and "Security advisories", the monospace dates feel odd to me. Partly because they are not aligned together with the title, nor indented enough to make the lack of alignment look intentional. And partly because of the subtle font change, from a fixed-width sans to a proportional sans, which again isn't quite the same but isn't that different either. The square brackets in the dates also don't quite work for me: the distinction between the date and the headline can be rendered with a sharp distinction in font size, and colour, for example. The dates can use a proportional font, too, and alignment can be achieved by other means. The Google News search results can be an example of timestamped entries with tidy alignments and clear graphical distinction between the various elements. It must be that years ago I've read a cute book indroducing some typographic rules[1] and my mind's been corrupted since then. Ciao, Enrico [1] http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n1AuwXafMO8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+non+designer's+design+book -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110206184932.5881.39128.reportbug@localhost
