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jema
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:02 pm Post subject: Who likes this site design?
This styleI think might be the unthinkable! One that me and Tahir both like https://www.wildlife-gardening.org.uk/default.htm

tahir

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:04 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:10 pm Post subject:
I wish they just had one web address. I'm not that keen on the two main lists, I would like a single main list of articles and a easy navigation bit on the left.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:15 pm Post subject:
Which we could do by removing the forums column and widening our l/h column. I like the way they separate the different elements.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:15 pm Post subject:
And moving the google ads to a banner across the bottom of the page.

sean
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:17 pm Post subject:
Tools down the LHS would be good. The subdivisions and thumbnails are done very neatly there. Don't like the colours much.

jema
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:30 pm Post subject:

I was not suggesting that this was 100% waht we want, but as a general format it has merit.

The show stopper though may well be Mambo

For this to work we need to show intro text with a thumbnail.

Mambo does not associate a content item with a particular image, and we break the image system in Mambo already by using a thumbnail system.

I think though I could write a module that grabbed the thumbnail out of the intro, and so do the front page items in that format.

we could also then I think show each of the "Trading Post" and "Have you tried" categories on the front page

tahir

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:34 pm Post subject:

jema wrote:

we could also then I think show each of the "Trading Post" and "Have you tried" categories on the front page

That's the clincher for me, much easier to navigate

jema
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:43 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

jema wrote:

we could also then I think show each of the "Trading Post" and "Have you tried" categories on the front page

That's the clincher for me, much easier to navigate

I am finding it very hard to belive that there is not a module to do this

But I cannot find one anywhere.

For me this is also a bit of a clincher. The section/category navigation sucks big time in my view.

I think I will make this my main priority.

With the current Mambo design we can have two different templates, one that applies to the front page and one elsewhere.

Therefore a quick edit of the current design, reducing the number of leader articles and having modules to show the category navigation would be a good incremental step towards the overall new design.

Blue Sky

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:57 pm Post subject:
The site is OK but to be honest ... I like the downsizer site just as it is. (sorry) How is the new logo doing???

jema
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 6:59 pm Post subject:

simon wrote:

The site is OK but to be honest ... I like the downsizer site just as it is. (sorry)

How is the new logo doing???

We are not too bad now I think, but there are some reall areas of navigation that are an issue.

New logo is subject of many debates as we try and design around it.

Blue Sky

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 7:26 pm Post subject:
Ok, agreed the navigation could be improved .... not that I would criticise the work of you downsizer geniuses but I think that the present colour scheme is nice. If you start introducing pinks and purples then I think I may have to bring a bucket into the room Did we ever get anywhere with the "management structure list" I am sure this would make interesting reading for us newcomers???

jema
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 7:45 pm Post subject:

simon wrote:

Ok, agreed the navigation could be improved .... not that I would criticise the work of you downsizer geniuses but I think that the present colour scheme is nice. If you start introducing pinks and purples then I think I may have to bring a bucket into the room

Did we ever get anywhere with the "management structure list" I am sure this would make interesting reading for us newcomers???

Don't worry about the colour scheme, that was not what we liked about the gardening site.

A profile of the staff has been largely compiled, i think there might have been the odd reprobate in that regard, but arms are being twisted and thumbs screwed

nettie

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 9:11 pm Post subject:
I like the layout too and agree that tools down the left hand side would be good.

Lloyd

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 11:01 pm Post subject:
Much easier on the eye in new format, easy to navigate, and I suspect, easier to locate old articles than at present. Tools on left would be good, ads at bottom where they are ignorable also would be better. More screenwidth for content then.

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