Re: [Bacula-devel] Website, refreshed

[Michel M. <st...@tc...>]

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Karl Cunningham wrote:
> --On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:18 AM +0100 Michael 'buk' Scherer
> <msc...@gi...> wrote:
> Michael --
>
> Nice look. I suggest that the logo stand out more from its background.

Agree with that and the other comment about making the logo more
readable and using the shorter 'Tagline'

> (which I do like). <fantasy> Would it be worth while for someone with some
> graphics talent (that's definitely not me) to work on the logo so it would
> work better with a light background?  How about an oval background behind

In my opinion oval = ugly. I've never seen a logo with an oval
background that actually looks good. This usually applies to all the
other 'backgrounds' (rectangles, ...) as well, especially if they're in
pseudo 3D.

 > Using M$IE there is an issue with the
 > right-hand edge of the horizontal red background at the top.

Confirmed using IE 6 (XP SP2, 1024x768).

Other 'issues' I see, in order of importance (most important first):
- - no page title .. websites should have a TITLE set at all times!
(Search engines use it and I use it to identify pages residing in open tabs)
- - the spacing between the entries in the menu is too much, try to reduce
it to avoid long pages and users having to scroll (example: on the
current Bacula page, the last link I see without scrolling is 'Bacula
Projects' under 'Projects', in your design the last I see is 'Manual:'
even though the menu starts at a much higher place). This gets even
worse when using IE6 (see next point)
- - in IE6 the text of the menu entries is indented, ie it starts too much
to the right, causing the text to wrap at the end of line (and the menu
to become a lot longer)
- - in IE6 the search button and text field at the top are not valign
center (they're at the very top of the 'frame' and not in the middle of
it like in Firefox)
- - in IE6 the background of the Bacula logo is clearly visible (seems to
be a different kind of red than the background of the page)

Other than that it's pretty good work, I would like to see some example
pages filled with text and working links though.

Greetings,
        Michel
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