Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Thursday 18 September 2008 00:07:13 Valentin Villenave wrote:
> I like the "default" theme's blue-grey colors *very* much, it feels
> both calm and serious. 

For my taste, there are too many different shades of bluish gray on the 
page, which makes it visually too inkonsistent for my taste... There's 
the  sidebar, the navigation bar, the footer, the link colors, the hover 
link colors in the TOC, the TOC title etc., everything in some different 
shade of blue...

> Patrick McCarty's theme has more fantasy 
> though, and that could be motivating.

Yes, I like the lively touch that the green brings into the page.

Of course, we can always ship the final docs with some alternate 
stylesheets, provided the HTML code can be left the same for all 
styles...

> I'm gonna say a dirty word, but... Is it forbidden to have any
> background-image, for instance in the TOC frame on the left?
> I was thinking of some kind of a texture, maybe something brushed, or
> discrete oblique lines like what I used to have with the Lilypond
> Report...
> If this is forbidden, I won't insist though.

It's not forbidden, but given that the TOC uses quite a small font and 
textures typically reduce the readablility of text, I have my doubts 
that it would keep the TOC easy to read... Of course, feel free to prove 
me wrong ;-)


> (by the way I'm looking forward to see what you guys will come up
> with, since I'm redoing the whole design for the next version of the
> Report :-)

Have you finished your Opera now? 

Cheers,
Reinhold

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