On 29 March 2010 21:51, Sebastiaan Visser
Nice work, definitely beats the current version!
A few remarks: - Please throw in a bit more color somehow. Like said before, this shade of gray is a bit depressive. - The "more" links are far to prominent. These links are not that important and form a very distractive part of the design. Maybe you can right-align them and make them less button-like. - I would recommend to use a bit more conservative font for the headers and the headlines. Why not stick with Helvetica, Gill Sans or Myriad Pro? - Don't use a bold font-face in running text. - Align the bottom of the tabs headers with the content frame? - Maybe you can make the right column less wide, making is more easy to focus on the main content?
These remarks might help to make the overall appearance a bit less heavy. Your design is quite lean and quiet, which is good, but some of the details make it a bit messy.
Useful tips, easy to change, thanks. I agree with all the points. I will update the concept pic in the morning. I'm already building the wikimedia skin now. I feel it's a good idea to get something real built that talks to the real database and can be clicked and browsed. Otherwise it will remain just an idea for a long time going through tweaks and watershedding. Regarding other colours, please help me. Here is the SVG of the site: http://chrisdone.com/tmp/haskell.svg If you can suggest one extra contrasting but complementing colour, that would be great.