[wp-design] Thoughts?

[Michael Heilemann]

I think it looks good, structure-wise. I agree with Joen on the logo, it was 
the first thing I noticed, and I also agree with the color thingie.

Ultimately I think thought should be taken to converge
wordpress.org<http://wordpress.org>and Shuttle, so as to make
WordPress a single 'thing'.


On 9/7/05, khaled Abou Alfa <brokenkode at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> See I think Subtraction is a brilliant design, and that's all about the 
> black baby :). As for the above there's one thing from a content pov I think 
> you should be emphasising more. The single greatest asset to wordpress, I 
> literally wrote about this yesterday, but it's the community. You should 
> highlight the community surrounding the program more, because for me as a 
> beginner that was the deal clincher. 
> 
> I like the design, but as mentioned more colour :).
> 
> On 9/7/05, Joen Asmussen <joen at noscope.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Thanks for clarifying, I was gonna bark at the colors.
> > 
> > Basically, the guy who said Black on White looks good should be 
> > neutered. 
> > 
> > In fact, I very very rarely use black at all. That's not only for my
> > online material, but for my offline things as well. The problem is, you
> > can't go darker than black, so everything is just up there, screaming 
> > it's lungs out.
> > 
> > In other words, shade of grey!
> > 
> > Oh, and nudge the logo slightly left. Right now it's placed so that the
> > symbol is not quite right aligning with the sidebar, and the logotype is
> > not quite left aligning with the main contents. My co-worker would'a 
> > pointed and screamed TANGENT! That means the dynamic is dead. Either the
> > logo should be nudged 5px to the right, or like 100px to the left to
> > break the tangent and create the dynamic.
> > 
> > That said, I really really like what he's done with the logo. Slap on 
> > some nice colors, and it'll look really nice! (Oh, and a shade of grey
> > or some color instead of the white background might also do wonders).
> > 
> > Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> > 
> > > Bryan Veloso wrote:
> > >
> > >> Well, I miss the colorful logo and I think the boldness looks weird 
> > >> on it (don't mind me if this is something that can't be changed).
> > >> Overall though, it looks very product-like. Nice and open and full
> > >> of content. But then I look at the header again, and it seems kind 
> > >> of empty, like it needs something there.
> > >
> > >
> > > I should have clarified, this is just for layout and shapes, no colors
> > > yet. Thanks for the feedback! This is version 1.
> > >
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > Joen Asmussen
> > 
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> > 
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Michael Heilemann
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