RubyForge themes

[Tom Copeland]

Howdy -

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

Yours,

Tom

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Howdy -

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/

I find this very classy, for what it's worth.

James Edward Gray II

 

[Jeffrey Moss]

Definately go with red.

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From: "Tom Copeland" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: RubyForge themes

 

[Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr.]

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Hi!

| Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
| can get an idea where he's going with them here:
| http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
| and here:
| http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/
| Any comments on these would be welcome...

I love blue, but on this case it hurts the eye. The red is better there.

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[Carl Youngblood]

Howdy -

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

Yours,

Tom

I like the red theme. It's more utilitarian and it cuts right to the
chase, not wasting valuable space on non-essential stuff. I don't like
the blue theme, both because it's hard to read the text against the blue
background and because blue is not a very rubyish theme

 

[Carl Youngblood]

Howdy -

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

Yours,

Tom

One other thing. It seems like the margins around different sections
are too big. Right now they are about 1.5 cm. I would reduce that to
5 or less.

 

[gabriele renzi]

Tom Copeland ha scritto:

Howdy -

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/

maybe... too much red. Ok I know ruby is suypposed to be red, but imo
not everything on a web page has got to be red. It is a nice theme,
anyway. Maybe the fontsize of links could be a little bigger.

and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

mh.. visited links are hard to read..

anyway, just my two cents, thanks for any effort

 

[Ryan Phillips]

Howdy -

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

Yours,

Tom

The red theme is much easier on the eyes.

-ryan

 

[Bill Kelly]

Hi,

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

Between the two I prefer the red; I'd concur with
others' remarks that it's easier on the eyes.

I wanted to mention that the font sizes on the page
appear to be fixed in a way that prevents my font
size preferences (in IE, View->Text Size->Larger)
from taking effect.

(No matter the font size setting, nothing on the page
changes.) . . . . This has the effect of kind of
cancelling out the "easy on the eyes" aspect, as I
have to squint to read the text. But it looks
nice.


Regards,

Bill

 

[Cameron McBride]

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

red +1. The default font is really small of the several machines I
looked at it on. (Firefox). I know I can it, but ... just had to
mention.

I think it's nice, slim and to the point.

Cameron

 

[Ben Giddings]

maybe... too much red. Ok I know ruby is suypposed to be red, but imo
not everything on a web page has got to be red. It is a nice theme,
anyway. Maybe the fontsize of links could be a little bigger.

I agree about the font size and about the colour. It's nice, but too
much. Maybe some complementary or analogous colour or something?

http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhexuse.html

Ben

 

[Tom Reilly]

I like the red version. Althugh the blue version is prettier, the red
is easier for me to read.

And I really like the data format in both saying what has been going on
and what people are interested in.

 

[Giovanni Intini]

I would go with red, increase a bit the text size and add some images,
but Red definitely.

 

[Florian Gross]

Eero Saynatkari has been working on a couple new RubyForge themes; you
can get an idea where he's going with them here:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

I prefer the Red one though having a bit more contrast in it might be nice.

Another small issue is that the margins don't seem to make sense
completely -- e.g. in the right sidebar there's more margin between the
heading and the content than between different sections and the content
is sometimes bigger than the headlines.

Something similar applies for the "Latest News" headline -- it does not
look like a headline at all.

Nothing too important, but it's still a bit confusing when you're just
scanning the page.

 

[Nikolai Weibull]

* Giovanni Intini (Jan 08, 2005 13:31):

I would go with red, increase a bit the text size and add some images,

Why images? Do we inherently need images on web pages? And as for the
text size...I'd say that you have a point, but I think that the CSS
should be very restrictive in dictating font-size. Just leave it at
whatever the user chooses, unless there's a need for a special
font-size.

The red theme is very pretty. The blue, not so much so. I could
definitely live with working with the red theme. There are still some
"off by one"-pixel problems, but it still looks very pretty.
nikolai

 

[Mark Smith]

Tom Copeland said the following on 1/7/2005 1:46 PM:

http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/red/
and here:
http://support.rubyforge.org/themes/blue/

Any comments on these would be welcome...

To my eye, the colors are not nearly as important as the contrast. Give
me dark text on a light background any day (red theme). Light text on a
dark background gives me a headache (blue theme).

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[Giovanni Intini]

Why images? Do we inherently need images on web pages?

IMHO a few images, even just a logo add some life and dynamism to the page.

And as for the
text size...I'd say that you have a point, but I think that the CSS
should be very restrictive in dictating font-size. Just leave it at
whatever the user chooses, unless there's a need for a special
font-size.

Default size should be good however. The user shouldn't need to
increase character size to read the page

 

[Douglas Livingstone]

IMHO a few images, even just a logo add some life and dynamism to the page.
+1

Default size should be good however. The user shouldn't need to
increase character size to read the page

The default size on the current site is quite easy to read, the only
problem with the body text is the distracting background image. (Even
Apple is stopping using it in their applications!)

I'm not sold on the tabs yet. The ones of the Blue page are good, if
you could combine that with the readability of the red ones I'd say
you're heading in the right direction.

Do you need the "Latest News" header? If the headers for the
individual news items could be made more header-looking, you wouldn't
need a bit of text to say "these are headers people!"

Could that text at the top of the page be moved into a third, left
hand column or something? If not, I like the idea of putting a visual
"box" around it as in the Blue theme, though the colours would look
better if it was more like the Red theme. Could the right hand column
and the "box" be given the light red background colour, and then make
the main content area white with the larger font sizes for the content
and news item headers?

Douglas

 

[gabriele renzi]

Douglas Livingstone ha scritto:

+1



The default size on the current site is quite easy to read,

+1, again

I'm not sold on the tabs yet. The ones of the Blue page are good, if
you could combine that with the readability of the red ones I'd say
you're heading in the right direction.

Do you need the "Latest News" header? If the headers for the
individual news items could be made more header-looking, you wouldn't
need a bit of text to say "these are headers people!"

ah, minimalism Now that I think of it, I'd also would like to see
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translated into
Read More/Comments[x]

But this are changes in GForge more than in just the css so that may be
a different thing

I still think there is too much red (or maybe just to "dark" red) but
IANAWebDesigner.

 

[Tom Copeland]

Douglas Livingstone ha scritto:

Hm, that's a good thought. What ways do you think the headers be
improved? Move the current info around, or add more?

ah, minimalism Now that I think of it, I'd also would like to see
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translated into
Read More/Comments[x]

Good idea, how's that look?

http://rubyforge.org/

But this are changes in GForge more than in just the css so that may be
a different thing

Keep 'em coming

yours,

Tom