On 17 July 2010 13:37, Andrew Coppin
Haters gonna hate. Well, I don't *hate* it. It just looks a little muddy, that's all. I tend to go for bright primary colours. But, as you say, each to their own... The actual layout isn't bad. A bit tall-and-thin, but otherwise OK. The new wiki will have a user preference to switch back to the default monobook style. You can always do that if you want. It doesn't work fully, yet, but that's on my ToDo list. Heh, well, maybe if we make half a dozen styles, there will be at least one
Thomas Schilling wrote: that everyone is happy with. ;-)
Hi Andy, thanks for the kind words. Whether we like the default theme or not right now, I still think it's important that the first thing a newbie sees makes a good impression. The fact that you can change the default theme to something else is irrelevant. Personally I agree it's a bit Ubuntu without the modernness, it's more Age of Empires/CIV, we-do-archeology-with-our-italics-serif-font (I find it a chore to read, can't imagine what people who aren't native to the Latin character would think), and the Haskell logo is oddly placed so that it looks more like an advertisement, search should always be on the right hand side, navigation should really be on the left, putting on the right is iffy. I do like the orange links. But also if we liked it, regardless, we should do user testing (checkout Don't Make Me Think, Rocket Surgery Made Easy). Sadly nobody has the time nor inclination to do proper web development and actually test designs and get feedback, so I suppose we're working with the time we've got. At least with theme support, we can write a load of themes, and then perhaps do a vote on what people think makes the best impression as a default. That seems most efficient and fair. I'll certainly make a couple. Hats off to Thomas for implementing a more friendly theme.