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![]() Volunteer moderator Project administrator ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 04 Posts: 4574 Credit: 2,100,463 RAC: 8 |
Hey everyone! This is the first post in a series of posts where the point is to present and discuss a major website overhaul done to improve the website a bit and bring it up-to-date. The first page to open up is the front page. You can visit the page on the test server over at http://test.burp.renderfarming.net. Maybe you want to compare it to the current frontpage and post back your experience and comments in this thread. If you hit any link on the test server that hasn't been opened yet you will be taken back to the normal BURP site. From time to time a new page will be opened up and a new thread will open with them. Please stay as much on topic as possible. The primary reason that got me started on redesigning the frontpage was a discussion I had with a team captain at one of the BOINC conferences several years ago. His idea was to spend more of the frontpage talking about content, events etc. and less about technical stuff. You'll see that it has become much more visual than the old page - with focus intended to be more on major user content milestones rather than the release of Blender version X.YZ (which is going to be moved to the client forum). A small list of changes:
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Knightoffaith Send message Joined: 23 May 14 Posts: 9 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Well, the overall design is generally nice, clean, modern, and pretty. :) Perhaps a more glass-looking look on the top navigation bar, as it looks like the buttons themselves are grey, not clear over a background (grey is boring for buttons IMO). Outlined the area here: http://prntscr.com/3tk0cq Dynamic layout works very well, though the font you use looks slightly odd to me with a smaller window. |
![]() Volunteer moderator Project administrator ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 04 Posts: 4574 Credit: 2,100,463 RAC: 8 |
Well, the overall design is generally nice, clean, modern, and pretty. :) Thanks! A lot of effort went into it already, I'm happy it wasn't too bad. Perhaps a more glass-looking look on the top navigation bar, as it looks like the buttons themselves are grey, not clear over a background (grey is boring for buttons IMO). Frosted, tinted glass. Great suggestion! I think it is doable, I'll give it a shot when I get near a computer tomorrow. Dynamic layout works very well, though the font you use looks slightly odd to me with a smaller window. Where and how? We're quite limited to what we can do with fonts:
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funkydude Send message Joined: 23 Dec 13 Posts: 275 Credit: 2,478,281 RAC: 0 |
Looks good to me. The only thing that comes to mind currently is that I'm struggling a little (colour, not size) to make out the navigation text at the bottom against the background. |
![]() Volunteer moderator Project administrator ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 04 Posts: 4574 Credit: 2,100,463 RAC: 8 |
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Knightoffaith Send message Joined: 23 May 14 Posts: 9 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Frosted, tinted glass. Great suggestion! I think it is doable, I'll give it a shot when I get near a computer tomorrow. Looks nice. Apart from that we're constrained to the viewer's selected default font; for instance we cannot change the font to Windings or Helvetica even if we wanted to. Well, here's what I'm looking at: http://prntscr.com/3turh6 I didn't know of any such font constraint, so I can't really help there. The font itself just looks odd in that instance to me. *Shrugs* |
![]() Volunteer moderator Project administrator ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 04 Posts: 4574 Credit: 2,100,463 RAC: 8 |
I'm a bit of a font retard, so if you can put some words on it then maybe there's something that can be done about it. In the meantime the next page has been revealed |
Knightoffaith Send message Joined: 23 May 14 Posts: 9 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I'm a bit of a font retard, so if you can put some words on it then maybe there's something that can be done about it. I'm not much better lol. Lets see if I can explain. http://prntscr.com/3utkfj Compare the top font to the one on the bottom. I'm thinking more along the lines of the top one. Closer to Ariel than Times New Roman, straighter text as opposed the thinner text with the 'extensions' at the end. But, take my opinion for what it's worth, which is limited :P. |
![]() Volunteer moderator Project administrator ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 04 Posts: 4574 Credit: 2,100,463 RAC: 8 |
Tried out a sans-serif font (that's what "without those extensions at the end" is called). It certainly makes it look different. Better or not, I have no idea =) |