WRITTEN ON January 17th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
Can I introduce Matt Phelan, and Abbie Filer? They’ve been working hard on Ideal Gov 2.0, and you can see Abbie’s artwork here. Let us know what you think! Matt meanwhile has various ideas to keep the site running and take it forward in various ways we’ll be seeing in weeks to come.
16 Responses to “Admin note: Ideal government redesign”
I found the colours are a bit harsh, if not bordering on garish. I nearly had to take my glasses off to save my eyes. Worse than that was the break in the graphic across the top of the page.
Sorry guys, it looked better before – it just needs to up the usability
Much cleaner than the original. A few points though:
1. The top banner is too large – with the top navigation it takes up nearly half of my screen.
2. Would make the categories in the left column more visible – without scrolling they are easy to miss. Perhaps making the intro text above them shorter or possibly moving it above Lorum Ipsum…?
3. The colour used for headings like “Ideal Government”, “Categories” etc hurts the eyes and should be changed!
4. Are the google adds necessary?
SV writes:
OK but not sure about colour (mauve/chocolate). Don’t see how banner buttons links will work/what would link to?
Looks good to me. I pretty much like what others are objecting to. I hope no content or functionality is lost in the new structure.
::JRBehrman
There was an error with the banner that is now fixed, please refresh your screens. The Adwords have been removed.
Oops, I forgot: de gustibus non disputandem
Stef writes –
like it a lot. nice and clean, more grown up than before but still friendly.
hit that button
I like it as it’s clean and striking. The banner at the top perhaps occupies a little too much space but overall I think it’s a step forward.
As others have said the header is a bit too tall. I also find the left hand column a bit wide. Would it be reasonable to write the html so that the content extends to the right hand side of my browser window and is not set at a fixed size.
I like it but…
Too much space taken by banner
Don’t forget posting date and time
Links within posts too subtle
I can’t see no red – only orange
I like it–but I’m not fussy. I’m not fussy when I read blogs, either. I don’t have the same expectations as I do from other websites. I liked the old one. I like the new one.
Not bad at all. The mauve is OK for me, but I know others may not like it. The top banner is too big as well, but aside from that it is good.
Looks great.
Keep it up!
P
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR IDEAL GOV ARTWORK!
Nice clean design, but “farm-yard brown” somehow reminds me of government! Will we all have to post in Latin?
Like others, I’d allow more space for the actual postings: After the first visit, I’d not notice the clever artwork.
In Opera 9.1, with largish fonts, the “site search” box is lost – Firefox 2.0.0.1 is OK, MS IE7 introduces a scroll-bar.
In MS IE7 and Opera 9.1, hyperlinks have the normal text colour, not blue, so are hard to spot. (My Firefox uses modified “chrome” which enforced the blue colour.)
Many people do not post using their full, real names: How well will the photos work?
Sam writes to say:
The red is a really horrendous colour.
The redesign probably mostly works, but the red really doesn’t. The top strip could do with being narrower as well.