[vos-d] Website design ideas

[Karsten Otto]

Hi Reed,

Nice work! Regarding the boxes in #1, is there any way to make the  
round corners anti-aliased? It looks a bit weird in contrast to to  
the smooth backgroudn image and the anti-aliased VOS logo.

Regarding #2, I think mouseover-popups are not a good idea for large  
things such as screenshots, better make them popup on click. I like  
the colorful tree-branch, but maybe that works better as a fixed  
rather than scrolling background too?

The only real issue I have is with the headline fonts; maybe it is a  
Safari/Mac problem, but they look extremely fat, to an extent where  
they are barely legible.

Keep up the nice work,
Karsten Otto (kao)

Am 18.02.2008 um 15:29 schrieb Reed Hedges:

>
> I made the divs a bit transparent in #1.  I think they're too  
> boring though,
> maybe need a bit more bubbliness? (Or is that too "Web 2.0"? :) Or  
> more of a
> border?
>
> I just threw together the background images in blender, but I do  
> like having
> them look more polygonated and emphasising that they are 3d graphics.
>
> With the second design, my idea is also that there would be a set  
> of similar
> background images, but with a different one for each page. (or  
> randomly selected
> when loaded).
>
> The background in #1 and the menu in #2 are fixed to the viewport,  
> but I haven't
> decided if that's a good idea yet.
>
> And I'm just having fun experimneting with the javascript mouseover  
> effects.
> Let me know if you think they would work.
>
> Reed
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:24:32AM +0000, Lalo Martins wrote:
>> I like #1.  When I did a mockup a long long time ago, I went with a
>> similar idea, and I think it's still valid; the metaphor being that
>> you're looking at a few "flat" widgets floating in a 3d space.
>>
>> I have a nice background image I generated from Celestia :-)
>>
>> Also, in my own mockup, I used partial opacity in the boxes.   
>> Maybe mine
>> were too transparent, but something like 90%, 95% would look  
>> good?  (The
>> problem with a lower value being, of course, that the Celestia  
>> background
>> was black with white stars, which would clash with the text...)
>>
>> best,
>>                                                Lalo Martins
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