short barney wrote:
I'm leaning towards the no-redesign camp, but I'm thinking of having a go at the contest anyway. I do have several specific things in mind, but I'm not the only one who reads letsrun. So I'm soliciting *specific* suggestions for what you think could be done better.
Me? I wish that front page would degrade gracefully on a small screen, like an iPhone or Palm Pilot. CSS, if used properly, could make this happen.
"a miler" also had suggestions above, though it would be nice to be more specific about the "better color scheme" and how "simplistic" the layout might be.
a miler wrote:-a better color scheme for most of the site
-a nice simplistic but organized layout for the home page and message board - my one complaint now is that things look too cluttered/thrown together
My thinking is along the lines of wejo - "cleaning up" would be a better term than "re-design". I'm not sure if this is for the forums as well, but assuming it is just the home page, I would be looking at things like:
-more uniform spacing around different news items. Currently they sometimes seem to run together
-have the items in the left side bar centrally justified
-put a space border around the different sections so text doesn't go right up to the border lines
-less primary colors - darker colors that give better contrast would be prefered