Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: 1.4 release

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On 29 Jan 2002 16:56:52 -0800, Adam Shand
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=> would you mind mailing a url to a screenshot or something?  i'm curious
=> what you've done.
	<snip>
=> i run a public wiki and had similar complaints from users and concerns
=> from myself.  one of the biggest things i didn't/don't like was that
=> with the standard wiki "look and feel" is that there is no site
=> consistancy.  it's very space efficient which is great when you are are
=> familiar with the site but for people who found a page on our site from
=> another site (or google) they had no idea what we, as a whole, were
=> about and there was no immediately obvious way for them to find out. 
=> you can see the really ugly hack i did to moinmoin here:
=>  http://www.personaltelco.net/

	You did a very nice job with yours and one can see by the
content how well it's working for you.  My changes don't improve
over yours, except perhaps in one area: I use a light pastel type
color for the background on the left column, the right title
area, the bottom non-content area, *and* a small right hand empty
column (tables) to visually frame the content - this "pops" the
content up into view more and pushes the non-content back down a
bit as well, and it gives more white space all around the
content, making it appear less dense (which is a good thing).

	I really like what you've done.  Your cute little icons
are nice as well and you might add a little "home" icon for your
front page (as I think many folks like to start over easily from
deep within content - and yes i did the same logo link in the
upper left corner but you need to know that's a home link - what
a long parenthetical comment, oh well....).

	Only other thing I did was to put two very prominent
EditText-type links in the left column to make it real easy and
obvious how to update the page.

	You did a nice consistent job with the edit page as well.
It seems like no matter what one does however, it's still much
too geeky.

	Finally, (with your indulgence) I like your logo but if
it were mine I'd shrink it down a bit to take up less of the
prime screen area. It does provide a good graphic consistency
from one page to the next.

	I like what you've done and gotten a couple ides for some
that I'd like to do as well.  I'll see where the "stable" daily
CVS is on the day I pull the phpwiki-lottery handle and go from
there.

	Thanks for the link. i think it helps to see how
different folks are formatting Wikis. I completely agree with
your other comments on look-and-feel.

	Cheers,

	- Don