screenshot of usabilitykde.org using new design

[Jason Bainbridge]

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All,

I've been playing around a bit with the new design, taking the good parts of 
the new design and merging them with the modularity of the existing php that 
Simon Edwards wrote for usability.kde.org. The below is an example of the 
result:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jasonandkate/kde/usability-newdesign.png

(taken at 1280*1024, resized to 1024*768, I only have X set to 1280*1024 at 
the moment, gonna have to put 800*600 and 1024*768 in there so I can test web 
stuff properly)

Everything there is working php, it is not a mockup well except maybe for the 
family links on the right but they are easy fixed. Of note are the bread 
crumb menu on the top left and the site's menu along the left, which uses 
menu.inc files in each subdirectory to build heirarchical menu's on the fly. 
It should also be pretty close to XHTML compliance unless I did something 
silly that would be easy enough to fix when I can be bothered checking it.

Once I go through the code and clean up any shortcuts I took with path's and 
what not I will put it somewhere in CVS so y'all can take a look. If you're 
curious in the meantime though have a look at the usability.kde.org module 
and in particular inc/functions.inc as all I have really done is replaced the 
old design/style with the new, actually I highly recommend atleast the 
participants in monday's IRC chat take a look beforehand so you'll know what 
I'll be ranting about. :-)

Using this design I could pretty much roll it out to usability.kde.org at the 
drop of a hat and it would work out of the box, except for some silly 
hard-coded formatting stuff I put into the old design when I was lazy (read 
stupid) that would take me a few minutes to rectify. Given this I think 
usability.kde.org is currently a very good example of a site that is easy to 
maintain as I have been able to make these changes pretty much within a 
couple of hours, so the existing code should be used as an example when 
building the new design.

I'm quite interested in hearing everyone's thoughts on this so please fire any 
comments my way. :)

Regards,
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Jason Bainbridge
KDE - Conquer Your Desktop
The KDE Usability Project - http://usability.kde.org
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