[wp-design] Version 8

[Khaled Abou Alfa]

Right time to tackle the latest version.

Stuff I like:
1. First off I love the white bar you've but right underneath the other 
bars. Very very cool indeed. I was wondering how we might get around that 
successfully. Less is more.
2. I like the use of blue rather than keeping it all shades of gray in the 
rest of the opening and closing tabs.
3. I like what you've done with the time stamp comment as well. Both the 
rounded edge and how the text pops out and the subtle gradient which is 
there as well.

The thing I'm not keen on right now and honestly not sure how to go about it 
is the tabs. The header in general should be something that just defines the 
whole system. Do we do something like Blender and have some sort of image in 
the background to every time a new version comes out? It could be as simple 
as a pattern or whatever? I'm just throwing out thoughts and ideas now. We 
can discard them but it's just to get talking about them to be honest.

I'll agree that some parts of the glass work very well for WP. The 
alternative is what, brushed metal? Liquid? Chrome? Marble? Textured? None 
of them really jumps at me and says yay that's cool, except maybe a subtle 
(very very subtle) chrome,...maybe. Thoughts?



On 6/6/05, Khaled Abou Alfa <khaled.aboualfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree that we should send everything around but as it's become clear 
> there are certain things that we still are fighting over, and that's the 
> header section, and the general branding of the whole thing. One thing that 
> we seem to have settled on is the overall layout of everything. The 
> beautification is about to start in ernest, since Joen, Michael and I are 
> jumping straight into it again. 
> 
> In the meantime I guess it's up to the dev boys to decide how they feel 
> that the work can be progressed in the best way (Matt and Ryan have the most 
> experience in this particular department).
> 
> Certain elements are pretty clear where we all stand (structure, where 
> everything will sit, etc), others we're still struggling (logo branding 
> etc). I'm about to dive into my comments on everything and do a little bit 
> of tweaking on Joen's latest sketch so fret not, we're picking things up 
> now. The elements we're unsure about will get hammered in for sure, as we've 
> said before it's all about building the momentum and getting everyone else 
> involved and moving the project forward.
> 
> 
> On 6/6/05, Chris Davis <chrisdmitri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I am assuming this will be replacement, not re-jiggering. At least I
> > am not wanting to mess with js-ing the stuff around.
> > 
> > Speaking of which, development is all well and good, but have we
> > actually decided on anything? There seems to still not be a clear 
> > idea of where we are moving the elements.
> > 
> > So can we maybe have one comp that is sent around and signed off on by
> > everyone, so that we at least know that we are all on the same page?
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